{"id":495,"date":"2006-03-01T19:09:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-02T02:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/?p=495"},"modified":"2006-03-01T19:09:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-02T02:09:00","slug":"readwritethink-three-lessons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/01\/readwritethink-three-lessons\/","title":{"rendered":"ReadWriteThink: Three Lessons!"},"content":{"rendered":"

A content report was due today, so I made a last-minute push to get things online. Finished up the lesson I have been writing for several days now, and edited and posted two others:<\/p>\n

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From Dr. Seuss to Jonathan Swift: Exploring the History behind the Satire<\/a><\/p>\n
After exploring the historical allusions behind Dr. Seuss\u2019s The Butter Battle Book<\/span>, the whole class discusses the history behind a passage from Gulliver\u2019s Travels<\/span>. After this group exploration, students research further historical allusions in Swift\u2019s work and share their findings with the class. (This one I wrote)<\/p>\n
Alphabiography Project: Totally You<\/a><\/p>\n
Instead of writing their life stories in a linear fashion, students write their biographies from A to Z in this nontraditional autobiography activity, which was inspired by the book Totally Joe<\/span> by James Howe. After the entry for each letter in their alphabiographies, students sum up the stories and vignettes by recording the life lessons they learned from the events.<\/p>\n
Finding Common Ground: Using Logical, Audience-Specific Arguments<\/a><\/p>\n
Using a hypothetical situation, students generate arguments from opposing points of view, discover areas of commonality through the use of Venn diagrams, and construct logical, audience-specific arguments in order to persuade their opponents. Students also have an opportunity to role-play with classmates in order to refine their arguments.<\/p>\n<\/dl>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A content report was due today, so I made a last-minute push to get things online. Finished up the lesson I have been writing for several days now, and edited and posted two others: From Dr. Seuss to Jonathan Swift: Exploring the History behind the Satire After exploring the historical allusions behind Dr. Seuss\u2019s The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-readwritethink"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pqzI8-7Z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tengrrl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}