The Miracle Worker Web Activity

Howdy, kiddos! Over the next few weeks, we are going to read the play The Miracle Worker by William Gibson. Below are some interesting websites that give you some more background about the Kellers and their home.

This site gives you a tour of Helen's childhood home:
http://www.helenkellerbirthplace.org

Helen Keller's great grandniece gives you some information about the Keller family on this page:
http://www.braillebug.org/askkeller.asp?issueid=200511

Profound quotes from a woman who was thought to be unable to think and learn:
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/h/helen_keller.html

The American Foundation for the Blind:
http://www.afb.org/section.aspx?FolderID=1&SectionID=1

Perkins School for the Blind:
http://www.perkins.org

Helen Keller's Obituary in the New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0627.html

Anne Sullivan's Obituary:
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0414.html

To Explore or Not to Explore? Websites

Websites for allocating resources to the space program:

http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/files/Benefits-Stemming-from-Space-Exploration-2013-TAGGED.pdf

http://www.nasa.gov/50th/50th_magazine/benefits.html

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/07/14/space.spinoff.medicine/index.html

http://spacecoalition.com/benefits-of-space

Websites against allocating resources to the program:

http://news.discovery.com/space/space-exploration-cost-110408.html

http://edquestscience.com/pdf/ES-SE-4notes.pdf

http://www.greeniacs.com/GreeniacsArticles/Waste/Space-Pollution.html

http://www.forbes.com/2009/07/16/apollo-moon-landing-anniversary-opinions-contributors-cost-money.html

Integrating Technology into the Classroom: Summer Workshop

       Welcome to our workshop! Participants will be introduced to a wide variety of methods for introducing technology into the classroom and given a wide variety of suggestions on how to integrate technology into current lesson plans. Items to be covered will include the following: 

-Educational Websites that enhance high level and creative thinking 

-How to create an effective classroom or student blog 

-Strategies for reaching the “iGeneration” 

-How technology can help you teach the Common Core  

Agenda

 1. Introduction to Project Based Learning & the Common Core  
     Project Based Learning for the 21st Century 
     High School High Project Example

2. Holding out for a Hero: Blue Team's Humanities Project
    a. Overview of Project
    b. Survey Monkey
    c. Blogging in the Classroom Kidblog.org 

3. Websites
     Lori's Latest Links 
     Wordle 
     Tagxedo 
     ReadWriteThink 
     Schooltube 
     Popplet 
     Voki 
     Animoto 
     Storybird 
     Pics4learning 
     Yodio 
     TweenTribune 
     GoAnimate
 
4. Your Turn!
Choose one or more of the resources listed above and integrate it into an old lesson plan or come up with a brand-new one! Write up a quick lesson plan or summary that addresses your standards, objectives and methodology. Feel free to printout any screenshots of the work you did.

5. Presentations
When we reconvene, share your lesson plan or summary! You can use our Smartboard to present your plan.

     Thank you so much for joining us today. We hope you learned a lot and will use some of these tools this year. :-)

~ Anne & Marissa

Bridget Explains Twain's Themes

Bridget the Cat on Theme

The Miracle Worker

Howdy, kiddos! Over the next few weeks, we are going to read the play The Miracle Worker by William Gibson. Below are some interesting websites that give you some more background about the Kellers and their home.

This site gives you a tour of Helen's childhood home:
http://www.helenkellerbirthplace.org

Helen Keller's great grandniece gives you some information about the Keller family on this page:
http://www.braillebug.org/askkeller.asp?issueid=200511

Profound quotes from a woman who was thought to be unable to think and learn:
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/h/helen_keller.html

The American Foundation for the Blind:
http://www.afb.org/section.aspx?FolderID=1&SectionID=1

Perkins School for the Blind:
http://www.perkins.org

Helen Keller's Obituary in the New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0627.html

Anne Sullivan's Obituary:
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0414.html

Fun with Pronouns!

OK, let's have some fun with pronouns. Or... if not fun... maybe some other state-of-being less akin to wanting to stab your eyes out with your pencil.

If you Google "pronouns," you will find a lot of sites about... pronouns! Imagine that!





Here are some good ones I found with some interactive quizzes:

http://www.softschools.com/quizzes/grammar/pronoun/quiz227.html

This one is really good. Make sure to read the explanations after you take it:

http://www.grammarbook.com/grammar_quiz/pronouns_1.asp

http://www.usingenglish.com/quizzes/67.html

For both of the following quizzes, answer the question in your head first, and then drop down the correct answer from the little box:

http://buckhoff.topcities.com/pronoun%20quizzes.htm
http://a4esl.org/q/h/vm/pronouns.html

http://cuip.uchicago.edu/www4teach/97/jlyman/default/quiz/obproquiz.html

http://www.usingenglish.com/quizzes/73.html

http://a4esl.org/q/f/z/zy11mzs.htm

There! You can probably find a ton of other ones, but those should suffice for now.

So... how did you do? Any questions about a particular one? Post about it, and I'll try to write back when I can.