Mandy+Presley

Mandy Presley

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=Unit Plan: Developing and Publishing Books=

Resources and Handouts:
//Setting and Literary Devices Packet -// [| http://bogglesworldesl.com/partsofastory.htm]

//Interactive Plot and Story Mapping Computer Activity -// [|http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/children-picture-book-project-1022.html?tab=3#tabs]

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//Storyboard Sheet// - []

//Conference Sign In Sheet -//

//Peer Review Sheet// 

// What role will drama and other performing /visual arts play in your classroom? // I strongly believe in the arts and the critical foundation that it brings to our students. With my major in art education and my minor in English, I will always be teaching with hands-on and physical activities. When thinking of the arts in the classroom, I usually refer to the 10 lessons the arts teach:
 * 1. The arts teach children to make good judgments about qualitative relationships. ** Unlike much of the curriculum in which correct answers and rules prevail, in the arts, it is judgment rather than rules that prevail.
 * 2. The arts teach children that problems can have more than one solution ** and that questions can have more than one answer.
 * 3. The arts celebrate multiple perspectives. ** One of their large lessons is that there are many ways to see and interpret the world.
 * 4. The arts teach children that in complex forms of problem solving purposes are seldom fixed, but change with circumstance and opportunity. ** Learning in the arts requires the ability and a willingness to surrender to the unanticipated possibilities of the work as it unfolds.
 * 5. The arts make vivid the fact that neither words in their literal form nor numbers exhaust what we can know. ** The limits of our language do not define the limits of our cognition.
 * 6. The arts teach students that small differences can have large effects.  ** The arts traffic in subtleties.
 * 7. The arts teach students to think through and within a material.  ** All art forms employ some means through which images become real.
 * 8. The arts help children learn to say what cannot be said.  ** When children are invited to disclose what a work of art helps them feel, they must reach into their poetic capacities to find the words that will do the job.
 * 9. The arts enable us to have experience we can have from no other source   ** and through such experience to discover the range and variety of what we are capable of feeling.
 * 10. The arts' position in the school curriculum symbolizes to the young  what adults believe is important. **