December 2008
5 posts
Dec 15th
Teaching Film in the Classroom
Below is a five day film unit based on the 8 Academy Award winning film, “On the Waterfront.” The lessons are geared towards grade level 10 R. These lessons can be added to or adjusted based on the needs of the students in your own classroom. Lesson -“Meet Terry Malloy” Lesson- “Designated Stoolie” Lesson- “Codes of Silence” Lesson-“A...
Dec 10th
Teaching Disposition Fall 2008
The English classroom is one of the few places young adolescents can and should be exposed to social and ethical issues through literature. Long Island is one of the most diversified areas consisting of mixed multi-cultural families. This provides a rich backdrop for students to explore and embrace the diversity around them. At the same time, however, it is one of the most segregated areas within...
Dec 9th
Novel Unit
Unit Calendar Jim the Boy Publish at Scribd or explore others: Jim the Boy Teaching Rationale: Intended Audience Jim the Boy is a fast paced read with a plot that keeps you flipping the pages. The readability level of this book is as young as a fifth grade student but based on the lessons created for this novel the intended audience is a 10 R class. There are many themes presented in this...
Dec 9th
Dec 2nd
October 2008
3 posts
Web 2.0 Assignment using LetterPop
In our Methods II class we have generated our own web 2.0 wiki. It is a ongoing wiki that lists sites that the class sees as effective teaching tools. For this assignment I have used a link from the site called: LetterPop We were required to create a one-page Assignment Sheet that uses one of the resources, posted from the wiki, with a literature-related assignment. Below is a link to my own...
Oct 21st
WatchWatch
This is a PhotoStory 3 creation. The reading is done with a song lyric from Dave Matthews Band, “Dancing Nancies.” Images were all used from Google Images and the backdrop song is “Song #34,” also done by the Dave Matthews Band.
Oct 14th
ListenHere is an audio excerpt from Shakespeares’...
Oct 7th
September 2008
4 posts
Illuminated Shakespeare Sonnet
Sonnet 137 1. Thou blind fool, Love, what dost thou to mine eyes, 2. That they behold, and see not what they see? 3. They know what beauty is, see where it lies, 4. Yet what the best is take the worst to be. 5. If eyes, corrupt by over-partial looks, 6. Be anchored in the bay where all men ride, 7. Why of eyes’ falsehood hast thou forged hooks, 8. Whereto the judgment of my heart is...
Sep 22nd
Work From Methods I -Fall 2007
Content Coming Soon…
Sep 14th
Contact & Links
(e) KJMoran@ic.sunysb.edu To view my Methods II class portfolios http://www.lomonico.com/Fall2008.htm Link to the Professional Education Webpage for the English Teacher Education Program at SBU http://stonybrook.edu/pep/tep_english.shtml Other Links National Council of Teachers of English National Public Radio NYTimes
Sep 14th
About
I am currently 21 years old and an undergraduate at Stony Brook University. This is my last semester before completion of the Professional Education Program for English Education. In the Spring of ‘09 I will be beginning my student teaching and pursuing a teaching job at the secondary level. From there I plan on getting my MA in the Professional Education Program for TESOL.
Sep 14th