Re: Nancy's Fingerpainting

[Dickie Selfe <rselfe@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Nancy, if you agree to come (virtually) to talk with the teachers in 
my ECAC workshop this summer (actually it's more the workchild of 
Danielle DeVoss), these kinds of connections are terrific. I hope 
others on this list will be willing to share activities that sequence 
and connect their assignments with other classes. I'd love to use 
them to illustrate how communicating across the curriculum can be 
interesting, student-driven, and project-oriented. Thanks Nancy.

We've tried to set up our summer workshop in order to coordinate 
professional development activities for teachers and students from 
their schools. If you want to see how, check out Danielle's page at 
www.hu.mtu.edu/ecac.


>John,
>
>My 8th graders do three large hypertext projects during the year.  The first
>one is a poetry annotation,  Since I like to coordinate my English class
>with what is going on in 8th grade history, the poetry I put together is by
>native americans.  The kids pick one of the poems and annotate it.  Students
>are learning about the spanish conquest in their history class.  For their
>second project students create a biography web. The kids pick a famous
>American who lived between 1492 (don't ask) and 1899 (don't ask).  It's
>again linked to their history class.  Kids in other English classes do a
>poster project.  My kids do hypertext.   And the last project is based on
>something the kids choose having to do with African American history or
>culture. In their history class they are studying the civil war.
>
>Nancy
>
>Nancy G. Patterson
>Portland Middle School, English Dept. Chair
>Portland, MI  48875
>
>"To educate as the practice of freedom is a way of teaching that anyone can
>learn."
>
>--bell hooks
>
>  patter@voyager.net
>http://www.msu.edu/user/patter90/opening.htm
>http://www.npatterson.net/mid.html
>
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