Expository Reading and Writing Course i3 ERWC Teachers Date and/or Subtitle

Expository Reading and Writing Course

i3 ERWC Teachers

Date and/or Subtitle


PRE-WORKSHOP OVERVIEW


Agenda

• Creating a Shared Vision• First and Last Modules• Course Overview: Binder 1 Walk• Module Walk-Through• Instant Module• Writing Tasks• Appendices and On-line Resources• Instructions for Day 2


CREATING A SHARED VISION

•Divide an 8 ½ x 11 page in half vertically.•On the top of the left side, write, “Give One.”•On the top of the right side, write, “Get One.”•Take about 5 minutes and, in the “Give One” column, write key points you remember or noted from the pre-workshop materials you viewed.


CREATING A SHARED VISION

•Take about 10 minutes to circulate, introducing yourself to as many new teachers as possible.

•When you introduce yourself, share one of the ideas aloud from your “Give One” notes.•Write any new ideas (or notes to clarify or elaborate the ideas you’ve notes) in the “Get One” column.

•Share major ideas as a whole group—add to “Get One” column any new ideas you hear.


FRAMING THE COURSE

Two new features of the ERWC

• Introducing Students to the ERWC• Final Reflection and Portfolio Analysis


FRAMING THE COURSE

•Individually skim these two pieces•In groups, discuss how these pieces support, deepen, or shift your understandings about:

•What we teach•How we teach•Who students are and what they bring to the work of the class•What a teacher’s role is in this curriculum•What the curriculum says about why we teach English

•Share


GETTING TO KNOW THE NEW MODULES

Groups Focus on One Module•Rhetoric of the Op-Ed Page •Racial Profiling•The Value of Life •Good Food/Bad Food •Into the Wild

•Take about 10 minutes to read through the module individually.



•As a group, represent the module on a poster, with different colors for:

•Module title;•Readings—titles and genres;•Writing Assignment(s);•Grammar Focus; and•Formative Assessment

•Discuss how to use the formative assessment and the grammar pieces.



Gallery Walk•Post posters around the room.•Groups start at home posters.•Leave one person to share ideas; all others move around one poster at a time to discuss. •Spend about four minutes per poster.


MODULE WALKTHROUGH

What’s Next?

Thinking About Life After High School


REVIEW TEMPLATE ELEMENTS

Reading Rhetorically

Prereading

Reading

Post Reading

Connecting Reading to Writing

Discovering What you Think

Writing Rhetorically

Entering the Conversation

Revising and Editing


PREREADING

Read and annotate Activity I.•How will your students react to the assignment of writing a portfolio? •How might you begin the module with them?

Read and annotate Activity 2.Picture a student in your last class.•Which questions will be helpful to that student?•What would his/her writing be like?


EXPLORING KEY CONCEPTS

Complete Activity 3 for yourself. •Choose 10 words from the list that describe you. •Add 10 words of your own. •Then prioritize those words. •Share with a partner and listen as your partner comments on the character you have revealed through your choices.•Reflect on the classroom experience.


PREREADING CONTINUES

Look through the activities to see how prereading is woven throughout this module. What does this say about the reading process?


EXPLORING THE MODULE

• With a partner, choose an element of the template.

• Look through What’s Next to see what activities and strategies the author uses to address that element.

• Consider how that would look in your classroom.

• Prepare to share your findings with the group.


MODULE DEBRIEF

• Sharing/reflection on key elements:• Motivation for students?• Examination of Standards?• College Expectations Covered?• Views of Writing?


STOP AND RESPOND

Experience the process.

Activity 11

Hidden Intellectualism


Instant Module

• Continue working with Hidden Intellectualism.• Develop activities for the section of the

Assignment Template assigned to your group.• Check with the groups that have cells just before

or after your cell for flow of the lesson.

• Debrief the activity and provide feedback to each other on the activities created.


WRITING TASKS• Return to the modules and consider the rhetorical

situations of the writing tasks across modules. In small groups, discuss and complete the table asking for the elements of the rhetorical situation of each task.

ContextActor PurposeAudienceMedium


Elements of Rhetorical Situations

Context (which includes some conflict or need [exigence])—What occasion/need calls for argument/persuasion? What issue does it address?

Actor—Who are students called to be in the situation created by the prompt (expert, teacher, colleague, friend, sibling . . .)?

Purpose—What are students asked to accomplish in their writing? Why?

Audience—Whom are they trying to persuade?Medium (for our purposes, usually a form of writing)—How

should they be communicating?

• What does thinking of these tasks in these terms add to your understanding?


APPENDICES AND ON-LINE RESOURCES

In pairs, explore the appendices. Take note of changes and be prepared to share out one strategy that you have used or that you plan to use.


EXTENDED LEARNING OPPORTUNITY

Read “Teaching for Transfer,” “Modifying the Assignment Template for English Learners,” and “Formative Assessment” before you come to Day 2. From the three articles, choose one to explore further and make notes about the big ideas in the article.


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