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"Survivor: Satis House"--Creating Classroom Community while Teaching Dickens in a Reality-TV World
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Bucolo, Joe – English Journal, 2011
Engaging 9th grade students in contemporary reality-show parodies based on "Great Expectations," the author helps students explore the intricacies of Charles Dickens's novel. In "Stay Tuned for Our Next Episode: Teaching 'Great Expectations' in Installments," the author highlighted the benefits of teaching "Great Expectations" in installments, as…
Descriptors: Grade 9, Novels, English Literature, Reading Assignments
Motivating Students' Research Skills and Interests through a Multimodal, Multigenre Research Project
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Bailey, Nancy M.; Carroll, Kristen M. – English Journal, 2010
The authors investigate how innovative research assignments based on students' personal interests can help them want to develop their research skills. They find that multimodal communication and representation, including film, written scripts, comic strips, music, and photography, encourage students to carefully select information from the…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Research Skills, Student Interests, Research Projects
Shakespeare, Our Digital Native
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Shamburg, Christopher; Craighead, Cari – English Journal, 2009
Performance-based activities and creative projects with technology that focus on Shakespeare's language are powerful developmental tools for students to express and extend thoughts and feelings from their lives. Shakespeare becomes a toy chest and a toolset that allows students to live in situations they never could and to express language they…
Descriptors: English Literature, Drama, Student Projects, Technology Uses in Education
Walking the Talk: Examining Privilege and Race in a Ninth-Grade Classroom
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Sassi, Kelly; Thomas, Ebony Elizabeth – English Journal, 2008
Kelly Sassi and Ebony Elizabeth Thomas describe their struggles and eventual success with students in constructing a "counternarrative to colormuteness and colorblindness"--the self-imposed student segregation and silencing of voice. Because of discussions during a Native American unit and student participation in a classroom intervention…
Descriptors: Student Participation, Interpersonal Relationship, Classroom Environment, Classroom Research
Accountability Rests on a Not Too Sharp #2 Pencil.
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Burtelow, Joan D. – English Journal, 1987
Compares instructions for taking a ninth-grade achievement test to the reality of the conditions in which the test was actually taken. (NKA)
Descriptors: Accountability, Achievement Tests, Classroom Environment, Grade 9
Teacher to Teacher: What Text Have You Found Most Successful with Your Students?
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Rallo, Curt; Roessing, Lesley J. – English Journal, 2006
"Teacher to Teacher" provides a forum for teachers to share ideas, materials, and activities. In this article, the first teacher describes the effects the well-known novel "Bleachers" (John Grisham, New York: Doubleday, 2003) had on a ninth-grade english class. The novel bought to life the high school culture that the students found challenging.…
Descriptors: Novels, English Instruction, Grade 9, Literature
A Whole Language Unit for Ninth Graders.
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Horton, Linda Green – English Journal, 1986
Outlines a student-conducted literature course that uses several classic novels ("My Antonia,""The Pearl," etc.) as the basis for group discussion, writing, and oral performance activities--all directed toward extracting "meaning" from the books selected. (NKA)
Descriptors: Censorship, English Instruction, Grade 9, Independent Study