Freedom within Structure: How to Compose an Engaged Language Lesson and Class Dawn Wink September 23, 2013 Annual Conference for Teachers of English 2013.

Freedom within Structure: How to Compose an Engaged Language

Lesson and Class

Dawn WinkSeptember 23, 2013

Annual Conference for Teachers of English 2013

ELT Going Through Changes

El Domínico Americano

Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

Two Truths, One Lie

When you think of an engaged class, what

does this look like? What is happening?

What we’ll do:

• Concepts for composing an engaging, interactive, rigorous class/presentation/workshop.

• Specific strategies and activities

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Concepts

One evening I walked into class and announced, ‘Tonight we’re going to talk about structure,” well aware that I was stirring up a hornet’s nest…I wanted to show structure not as restrictive, pharisaic law, but as a means of freedom.

~ Madeleine L’Engle, A Circle of Quiet, p. 123

Freedom Within Structure

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Pass the Paper

Think/Pair/Share

Mingle/Cocktail

1.Student-generated2.Teacher-guided

Conversation Line

Conversation Circle

Graphic Organizers

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Quickwrite

Teaching with Stones & Glass

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New idea/learning for each stone.

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Essential idea you’ll take away from today.

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X X _Pair/Share________

_Concepts_______

X X _Pass the Paper___

X X _Pair/Share______

_Strategies________

X X _Mingle__________

X X _Conversation Line_

X X _Conversation Circle

XX _ Graphic Org.____

_Teaching with Stones/Glass_______

X X _Essence of Ideas_

X X __Pair/Share____

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Pass the PaperThink/Pair/ShareConversation LineConversation CircleMingleIndividual WritingGraphic OrganizersQuickwrite

Share your plans and ideas with your partner.

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Beauty, Skulls, and Culture

This wonderful and wise pendant arrived last week, a gift from my dear friend, Kenna, in celebration of Meadowlark.

I cradled it in my palm, felt the intricate ridges of its braided back against my skin, and was again amazed at the unimagined life of its own that unfolds around Meadowlark. 

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