tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5867650362751928386Wed, 28 Aug 2024 23:46:18 +0000http://brittanylit.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Ms. Stahlman)Blogger39125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5867650362751928386.post-4555419547796546066Thu, 24 Mar 2011 20:40:00 +00002011-03-24T13:41:27.411-07:00I was so close to losing it with a student today. I felt the anger rise up to my face and I got all red and hot. Why? While his classmates were giving speeches, he had his phone out. He saw me see him with his phone. He put his phone away and denied he even has a phone when I told him I needed to bag and tag it. What scared me was how angry I became simply because a student was being defiant. http://brittanylit.blogspot.com/2011/03/time-to-nap.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ms. Stahlman)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5867650362751928386.post-6273306411260796961Fri, 18 Mar 2011 15:12:00 +00002011-03-18T08:16:22.972-07:00So how'd it go with my first week full-time? Great! I'm still adjusting to this whole waking up and not working evenings thing. I still don't know what to do when my alarm goes off early in the morning. The teaching part has been going well though. I still have a bit of the "WHAT AM I DOING?" air to my teaching, but it's slowly beginning to disappear with every time I get up in front of the http://brittanylit.blogspot.com/2011/03/my-first-week.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ms. Stahlman)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5867650362751928386.post-5240560818480582009Wed, 16 Mar 2011 01:49:00 +00002011-03-15T19:02:12.646-07:00I am always a bit torn when it comes to direct vocabulary instruction. For the most part, it seems so pointless and dull. Here: look up this word and use it in a sentence. Now it's committed to your memory forever. These words they have to look up seem to be esoteric and antiquated. Is it necessary to learn words that have been basically purged from our spoken and modern written language? http://brittanylit.blogspot.com/2011/03/vocabulary.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ms. Stahlman)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5867650362751928386.post-8356518522373762934Thu, 03 Mar 2011 17:36:00 +00002011-03-03T09:50:33.154-08:00Something that I think about sometimes is the way to assess use of digital literacy. We stress its use and hey, I like it a lot too, but how do you assess something that can go in so many ways? I suppose this is always the issue with open-ended assessment, but if a student makes a really, really terrible video with awful audio quality and abysmal video quality, should we give them the same http://brittanylit.blogspot.com/2011/03/digital-literacy-and-assessment.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ms. Stahlman)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5867650362751928386.post-1850301234484827960Thu, 24 Feb 2011 18:23:00 +00002011-02-24T11:02:29.587-08:00It feels pretty funny to read about new litearcies in an academic context, because the researchers are describing my teenage life: I was always playing around with Photoshop, reading fanfiction (yikes! embarrassing!) and joining forums for things I liked to discuss with other people the things I liked. It was never something I thought about on a metacognitive level - it was just something I didhttp://brittanylit.blogspot.com/2011/02/new-literacies.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ms. Stahlman)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5867650362751928386.post-4643089847172831996Thu, 17 Feb 2011 16:39:00 +00002011-02-17T09:18:43.388-08:00Ahh, middle school. When I was in 8th grade, my English teacher assigned us a research project: pick a president. Any president. Research his life. I chose Richard Nixon because I had no idea what that whole scandal thing was about.For some reason I cannot figure out to this day, my teacher denied my proposal. He was, as far as I could tell, a president of the United States. Why did it get http://brittanylit.blogspot.com/2011/02/conferences-and-choice.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ms. Stahlman)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5867650362751928386.post-4204389725199980567Thu, 10 Feb 2011 18:40:00 +00002011-02-10T10:58:55.142-08:00Yikes, okay, I picked up a lot of good teaching tidbits this week, but I'm feeling inadequate in my grammar knowledge right now. Appositives? Parallel structues? Participial phrases? Okay, I get the idea on most of these (except appositives. Please, someone explain those to me) but it's no wonder that traditional grammar education is met with groans, moans and little results (that was not http://brittanylit.blogspot.com/2011/02/feeling-little-inadequate-here.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ms. Stahlman)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5867650362751928386.post-4890972591206130413Thu, 03 Feb 2011 05:56:00 +00002011-02-02T22:14:08.974-08:00Alright, I'm just going to start this off by saying I don't have too much to say about Romano. I enjoyed the entire book; I'd love to teach multigenre papers, but the entire reading just seemed like an activity I can store in the back of my mind and can pull out one day. What I was more interested in was what he had to say on unity (and I think most of the readings tossed this around).Unity http://brittanylit.blogspot.com/2011/02/week-two-blog-entry.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ms. Stahlman)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5867650362751928386.post-6013553755969764169Thu, 27 Jan 2011 05:41:00 +00002011-01-26T22:03:10.959-08:00I had to actually check the copyright day for Within and Beyond the Writing Process in the Secondary English Classroom (phew! what a title). All the of the information seemed so common sense to me, yet the authors seemed to pose it as revolutionary. But, as I thought about it, the only time I have ever experienced writing instruction as a process has been in either a college-level creative http://brittanylit.blogspot.com/2011/01/week-one-blog-entry.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ms. Stahlman)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5867650362751928386.post-2152640834118731598Tue, 14 Dec 2010 17:25:00 +00002010-12-14T09:29:53.839-08:00Click here for the podcast book review of La Linea.http://brittanylit.blogspot.com/2010/12/la-linea-book-review-podcast.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ms. Stahlman)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5867650362751928386.post-8378471810772588965Tue, 14 Dec 2010 16:28:00 +00002010-12-14T08:29:27.079-08:00Bradbury, Ray. (2009). Ray Bradbury’s fahrenheit 451: the authorized adaptation. Ill: Tim Hamilton. New York, NY: Hill and Wang. 080905101X.This graphic novel is an authorized adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s classic dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451. The story of Guy Montag, the firefighter who lives in a world where firefighters start fires, still follows Bradbury’s original character through his http://brittanylit.blogspot.com/2010/12/annotations.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ms. Stahlman)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5867650362751928386.post-1759860092142022584Thu, 09 Dec 2010 20:45:00 +00002010-12-09T12:59:27.826-08:00I really enjoy modern adaptations or allusions of old novels and I think it's a great way for students to really understand what is going on in a book if they can connect it to their modern worlds. I would use these film adaptations as pre-reading strategies. Films I might use:O - OthelloApocalypse Now - Heart of DarknessRomeo + Juliet - Romeo and JulietBridget Jones's Diary - Pride and http://brittanylit.blogspot.com/2010/12/film-adaptations-in-classroom.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ms. Stahlman)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5867650362751928386.post-4232654367506620883Tue, 07 Dec 2010 17:34:00 +00002010-12-07T09:38:49.195-08:00I was really excited to read Maus. It was one of the books that I have always had on my list of books to read. I had never read graphic novels before, nor did I have much interest in reading them. I associate them with comic books, which I associate with super heroes. I have never had much interest in either of those. Maus was the first book that made me realize that there are more to http://brittanylit.blogspot.com/2010/12/maus-response.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ms. Stahlman)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5867650362751928386.post-1036965267315708396Tue, 07 Dec 2010 17:33:00 +00002010-12-07T09:34:36.977-08:00While I was really excited to read Maus, I was a little apprehensive about reading American Born Chinese. I had never heard of this book before we were assigned to read it; not only that, but I don’t know much about Chinese-American culture. This is a bit of a strange thing to admit, as I have Chinese-American friends, students and family members, but as far as their family’s culture and their http://brittanylit.blogspot.com/2010/12/american-born-chinese.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ms. Stahlman)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5867650362751928386.post-2254414034962653356Thu, 02 Dec 2010 17:58:00 +00002010-12-02T10:27:23.984-08:00I listen to a lot of music genres; the only genre I really cannot stand listening to is country. I rarely go to concerts and I'm not sure why. I prefer music as a private event - when I'm driving, doing the dishes, lounging around. It's not something very social for me. In fact, it's very personal. I rarely talk about what I enjoy listening to, because it seems like a part of my personal http://brittanylit.blogspot.com/2010/12/music.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ms. Stahlman)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5867650362751928386.post-278964347247736088Thu, 02 Dec 2010 15:29:00 +00002010-12-02T09:49:18.871-08:00I really believe music videos can be a great tool in the classroom. They are easy to access texts with high interest; they can be used to scaffold or introduce high concept ideas. With music videos, like most things in the classroom, they do not teach on their own. Instead, dissecting the videos, using graphic organizers to analyze elements and having discussions or writings encourage studentshttp://brittanylit.blogspot.com/2010/12/teaching-with-music-videos.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ms. Stahlman)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5867650362751928386.post-8725724997943642364Thu, 18 Nov 2010 22:08:00 +00002010-11-18T15:01:01.444-08:00Food Inc.Message: The message of this film is a denouncement of the current food availability in grocery stores. The animals are mistreated; the food is diseased; seed companies are abusing farmers. The film is trying to make people into smart food consumers - to question where there food comes from and purchase organic food from local farmers.Techniques: The documentary sets up a binary http://brittanylit.blogspot.com/2010/11/documentary.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ms. Stahlman)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5867650362751928386.post-8697414513299707573Fri, 12 Nov 2010 00:57:00 +00002010-11-11T17:05:03.647-08:00 flashvars='jsonLocation=http%3A%2F%2Fstah0122.podomatic.com%2Fentry%2Fembed_params%2F2010-11-11T17_01_59-08_00%3FautoPlay%3Dtrue%26facebook%3Dfalse%26height%3D85%26rtmp%3D1%26width%3D580' wmode='transparent' menu='false' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' allowscriptaccess='false' allowfullscreen='true' width='580' height='85'>http://brittanylit.blogspot.com/2010/11/testing-this-thing-out.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ms. Stahlman)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5867650362751928386.post-7288733773608529367Thu, 11 Nov 2010 22:29:00 +00002010-11-11T15:02:18.231-08:00Kare 11 - 11/10/10 at 10 p.m.00:00 Pedophile's Guide Ebook02:20 Wadena voleyball going to state after tornado04:26 Child Abuse case04:46 Name of woman who was run over04:59 Bachmann not going for GOP leadership position in house05:17 Ramsey county vote totals05:32 Mayor will pay for recount05:51 Target field adding things06:08 NASA going to repair fuel tank06:33 Cruise ship to reach http://brittanylit.blogspot.com/2010/11/news-analysis.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ms. Stahlman)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5867650362751928386.post-167831100628798651Wed, 10 Nov 2010 01:45:00 +00002010-11-09T17:48:27.608-08:00Boyne, John. (2006). The boy in the striped pajamas. New York: David Fickling Books. 978-0-385-75153-7.Nine-year-old Bruno has a happy life. He lives with his mother, father and sister, Gretel, in Berlin. His family a big house with five stories (counting the basement and attic). He has three good friends, loving grandparents and a big city that begs him to explore. When Bruno comes home http://brittanylit.blogspot.com/2010/11/book-review.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ms. Stahlman)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5867650362751928386.post-8365048861216818883Tue, 09 Nov 2010 02:04:00 +00002010-11-08T18:05:10.508-08:00This book left me with a sort of a mixed response. It was a little strange to jump into the non-fiction genre right after reading The Hunger Games. It was difficult for me to get into the mindset that not only did this actually happen, but now it has to fit into this physical world. It has to work with scientific laws now; it cannot just be explained away by the technology or magic. http://brittanylit.blogspot.com/2010/11/shipwreck-at-bottom-of-world-response.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ms. Stahlman)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5867650362751928386.post-331728192061519381Thu, 04 Nov 2010 20:32:00 +00002010-11-04T15:47:08.231-07:00Full House Clip - demonstrates the social conflict, the laugh track and clean, city home. Everything is so perfect, their conflicts must be both arbitrary, far-fetched and easy to solve. Also, view the white, middle-class each character takes; family sitcoms tend to promote the idea of "color blindness."Why does this genre appeal to me?I grew up on this genre - I didn't have cable when I was http://brittanylit.blogspot.com/2010/11/family-sitcom-genre-analysis.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ms. Stahlman)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5867650362751928386.post-5261346364334297989Thu, 28 Oct 2010 16:02:00 +00002010-10-28T09:53:14.183-07:00Here I am three years after the release of the last book in the Harry Potter series, writing about the still strong Harry Potter Fanfiction Community. I thought it would have died by now or have become irrelevant to many fans who have been satisfied by the completion of the series. I was wrong.Where do I fit in to all of this? I loved Harry Potter Fanfiction back in the day when we only had http://brittanylit.blogspot.com/2010/10/harry-potter-and-fanfiction-community.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ms. Stahlman)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5867650362751928386.post-2994835326381048260Tue, 26 Oct 2010 16:51:00 +00002010-10-26T09:52:35.601-07:00I was very torn about this book. I kept having this conflict as to whether I liked it or not. I think there are two factors: I had difficulty suspending belief and I kept waiting for something to happen. Everything just happened so calmly and peacefully that I expected some form of tense conflict whenever I turned the page. I was wrong.The question I ask myself, then, is was it a good book? http://brittanylit.blogspot.com/2010/10/skellig-response.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ms. Stahlman)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5867650362751928386.post-1819934762896629248Tue, 26 Oct 2010 16:45:00 +00002010-10-26T09:50:45.784-07:00I loved this book! I am a huge fan of Harry Potter and I put The Graveyard Book into a similar category. Both involve orphan boys with malevolent beings with dreams of world domination out to get them. Both are this strange realistic fantasy genre where the real world exists and interacts with their worlds, but the fantasy worlds are contained within borders. With fantasy books like that, http://brittanylit.blogspot.com/2010/10/graveyard-book-response.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Ms. Stahlman)1