Full Description
More than 670,000 middle school teachers (grades 6-8) are responsible for educating nearly 13 million students in public and private schools. Thousands more teachers join these ranks annually, especially in the South and West, where ethnic populations are ballooning. Teachers and administrators seek practical, time-efficient ways of teaching language arts to 21st-century adolescents in increasingly multicultural, technologically diverse, socially networked communities. They seek sound understanding, practical advice, and proven strategies in order to connect diverse literature to 21st-century societies while meeting state and professional standards like the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts. This book offers strategies and resources that work.
Contents
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One - Scoping Out the Year in Preview - Plan Now To Be Effective and Efficient
Chapter Two - Networking Socially at the Start of a School Year
Chapter Three -Writing to Learn Across the Content Areas
Chapter Four - Exploring Traditional and Contemporary Grammars
Chapter Five - Telling It Like It Is: Inviting Informative Writing
Chapter Six - Making the Case: Persuasive Writing
Chapter Seven - Versing Life Together: Writing Patterned and Original Poems
Chapter Eight - Entertaining Writing - The Short Story
Chapter Nine - Playing It Right: Reading, Writing and Performing Drama
Chapter Ten - Speaking of Grammars, Media Arts and Public Speaking
Chapter Eleven - Celebrating Names: A Unit about Community and Identity
Afterward
Appendix
Bibliography
