Final Ustaris Educon 2011 Presentation

HOW DO YOU READ

THESE IMAGES?

The role of visual texts in teaching divergent thinking and

analysis in an inclusive ninth-grade English classroomLorraine A. Ustaris, The Arts Academy at Benjamin Rush

Meet the Class

Population: 27 amazing kids

Who are reduced to these labels on paper…

Special Learning DisabilityAutism Spectrum DisorderESL“Regular” EdGifted

We don’t need

no education!Help!!!

No more bricks in The Wall :

Pink Floyd + Paradigm Shifts

on the First Day of

High School

Are literary terms too legit for us to quit?

Do metaphors matter modernly?

Are symbols significant?

Is rhetoric really

important?

What is school compared

to in Pink Floyd’s video?

What does it

mean to be

‘just another

brick

in the wall’?

What is Pink Floyd’s

message?

. . . What happens when the next stop on the road to

changing paradigms is the kingdom of paradigms?

Reading the World

through

Disney’s Fantasia :

Engaging in

Literary/Cultural

Analysis in an

Inclusive English

Classroom

An Analysis of “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice”

http://bigmamastar.edu.glogster.com/sorcerors-apprentice-1925/