MWP & DOE Present:

2012 Saturday Sessions Workshop Series (3)

(2012 Saturday Sessions Workshop Flyer)

Workshop #3

Common Core Standards in Action -- Narrative, Poetry, and Multigenre Writing

March 31st, 2012

Minnesota Academic Standards: English Language Arts K-12 2010

• Standards and related resources found of DOE website
• Common Core Appendices related to ELA Language Arts
• Appendix A: Information about complexity and rigor
• Appendix B. Text Exemplars
• Appendix C: Student writing samples
• Common Core Curriculum Maps: Provides integrated curriculum units that demonstrate best practices incorporating the Common Core Standards in grades K through 12.

Opening Writing Prompt

• World War II (11:00) -- A collaborative project made for a social studies research project on World War II -- This video was part of a portfolio project on WWII (view full project). 
• How do you use different genres for different purposes in your teaching? What is an example assignment?
  

Presentations from February 11th workshop

Elizabeth Boeser  -  Jefferson Senior High, Bloomington

• Comic Life assignment sheet & rubric
• Link to Google presentation -- Writing with memoir, research and Comic Life
  
• Handouts -- blank storyboard
• Other assignment ideas and Teaching Consultant page
  

Zachariah Prowell -  Highlands Elementary, Edina

• power point
• pictures of OREO multigenre writings A B C
  

Kristin Gifford - Anoka Middle School for the Arts

• Handouts
• power point
  

Anthony Jacobs - Central Senior High, Saint Paul

• Handouts (Links to prezi presentation and google docs are on handout)

Additional multi-genre resources

• Tom Romano's book: Blending Genres, Altering Style
  
• Annenberg Series -- Write in the Middle: Workshop #5: Teaching Multigenre Writing
• NCTE ReadWriteThink: Having My Say: A Multigenre Autobiography Project
• NCTE ReadWriteThink: Weaving the Multigenre Web
• Sherri Larson's MultiGenre Webpage featured at MCTE 2008-- Sherri's Article in MCTE 
• TEDs short Talk (4:35) "Mike Matas: A next-generation ebook" (interactive book by Al Gore) - mentioned by Sharon as thought provoking considering how reading will shift in the future.