GCTE Conference February 18, 2012

Mandee Jablonski M.S. Ed. Georgia Master Teacher

Marietta Middle School 8th Grade ELA

Email: Mandee.Jablonski@gmail.com Twitter: @LitEverywhere

www.literacyeverywhere.com KMWP.org

Balanced Literacy?

Balanced Literacy?Strong reading, writing, and vocabulary

skills are crucial in the Balanced Literacy classroom. Looking at text structure,

vocabulary, primary sources, fiction, and nonfiction are just a few of the ways that you can move from being a great teacher

to a

Balanced Literacy

Superstar!

Graphic retrieved from http://www.harcourtcanada.com/rigby/bal-lit.htm

http://mrscarosclass.com/balanced_literacy.htm

When Teachers Say, “I don’t teach

ELA, Why should I care about literacy?”

Change Your Words. Change Your World.

Spreading the literacy love

QuicklyCheaplyEasily

Don’t give up

Document Based Questions-DBQ

Historic Context

The industrialization, which followed the Civil War, had a great impact on many different area of life in the United States. One of the groups most affected by the growth of industry was the worker.

Question: Discuss the impact of industrialization on workers in the United States form 1865 to 1914 and evaluate the ways that individuals and government responded to the problems created by industrialization.

http://www.edteck.com/dbq/

The employer desires to reduce wages and lengthen the hours of labor, while the desire of employees is to obtain shorter hours of labor and better wages, and better surroundings. Strikes establish or maintain the rights of unionism; that is, to establish and maintain the organization by which the rights of worker can be better protected.

Samuel Gompers

According to Samuel Gompers, what are the differences between the goals of employers and employees?

I am going to fight… If it takes all summer and all winter, and all next summer and all next winter. Yes, even life itself. I will fight this to the bitter end. I will never recognize the union, never, never. 

HC Frick, President, Carnegie Steel, 1892

What was the attitude of many "captains of industry" toward unions?

Graphic Novels

Graphics & Vocabulary

Picture Prompts-Rapid Writes

No wrong…just WRITE

SILENCE

AWESOME OR EVIL?

Create a conversation between Hitler and Lincoln.

https://sites.google.com/site/balancedlitteach/home/social-studies

To the Core?!The best teaching survives every pendulum swing. Yup…all of them.

Sometimes you have to roll with them.

This too shall pass

Sometimes you have rise up and fight them.

Be the change

Everything that is best practice will survive.

You know what is best for your kids.

Don’t let anything stop you from delivering!

Great Sites & ResourcesTime for Kids: http://www.timeforkids.com/

Wonderopolis: http://wonderopolis.org/

News Hour Extra: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/extra/

New York Times Learning Network:

http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/category/lesson-plans/

History.com: http://www.history.com/NPR: http://www.pba.org/programming/programs/thisisatlanta/atlcivilrights/

Laura Candler’s Site: http://www.lauracandler.com

Lorie Squalls of Irving ISD

https://sites.google.com/site/balancedlitteach/home/social-studies

Writing Tumblr:

http://writingprompts.tumblr.com/

DBQ:

http://www.edteck.com/dbq/

Greece, NY Literacy Instruction in Social Studies:

http://web001.greece. k12.ny.us/academics.cfm?subpage=1361

Bill McBride:http://billmcbride.pbworks.com/w/page/14094960/Welcome%20to%20my%20Wiki

Edutopia Summer PD:

http://www.edutopia.org/summerpd

Cybraryman.com/ Twitter (no, really!)

http://cybraryman.com/ www.twitter.com

Pinterest

www.pinterest.com

Great Sites & Resources