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TE 407
September 29, 2008
Curricular Map
Paper on what
we learn from
Almond’s
works
Poetry Walt What do these Classical 4 weeks
Whitman’s “I poems have to Transcendental
Hear America do with the ist poetry
Singing” “O American
Captain my Dream Poetry of the
Captain”, “The new era, 1950s
was a Child Does death
Went Forth” play a role in Death poetry,
Henry David the dream, death as an
Thoreau’s was it lived influence
“Inspiration”, “I out.
am the Culturally
Autumnal Multi- Genre influenced
Sun”, “I Knew Research poetry
a Man by Project on the
Sight” different views
Edgar Lee of the
Master’s Spoon American
River Dream,
Anthology especially with
Edgar Allen influences
Poe’s “A dream from different
within a times, and
dream” and ethnicities.
“Annabel Lee”
Emily
Dickinson’s
selected
poems
Langston
Hughes Poetry
“ A Raisin in
the Sun” and
other works
Voices From Comparison of Novel 3 weeks
the Youth Dead Poets the movie and
Society by N.H. novel, and how American
Kleinbaum what happens Literature
is different,
Adventures of what does this
Huckleberry do to the story Movie
Finn By Mark
Twain How do one of
these works tie Novel
Viewing of into the
either Dead American
Poets Society Dream
or Emperor’s
Club Youth and their
dreams
compared to
parents and
their dreams
for their
children
The Second Night by Eli How does the Novel 6 weeks
World War Wiesel war look in the
eyes of the Novel
All But My Life youth
by Gerda Personal
Weissmann What are Journal and
Klein differences Memoir
Maus between the
by Art American and Film,
Spiegelman European miniseries
viewpoints
An Episode of Audio clip,
Band of Does this speech
Brothers, Day change the
of Days(with American
permission Dream, wholly
slip) or individually
FDR’s Day of
infamy speech
teaching to write out what they would teach for a whole year. Then it
occurred to me that this is my big chance to try out some of my ideas and
work on ideas that I could possibly use in my classroom. This project not only
ideas and create what I would possibly teach in my first classroom, and
The hardest part would have to be finding texts beyond what I was
taught in my junior year in High School. I did not know where to look, after all
this would be someone’s education Google would be the last thing I would
want to use to find books, speeches, or articles. To find the article about
resources. There I found the article about American Dreams of the Latin
yet all we read was literature either written by white people, especially men,
about white people, usually men again. However, today’s classrooms are not
just white men. A classroom can have ESL learners, multiple ethnicities,
think that if they have a personal connection to the work we are looking at,
people has their own idea of an American Dream. All of these units take
place in building America and a personal dream for each person. Many of the
texts are classic high school literature such as, The Great Gatsby or The
Catcher in the Rye. Yet others are new texts I have found to supplement the
normal books. The Joy Luck Club and The House on Mango Street both
display the hardship and difficulty many immigrants have when trying to
more female authors, such as Amy Tan and Sandra Cisneros. Also, giving my
Shakespeare.
My poetry unit is the one I am most excited for. At first I want to teach
students find this poetry wordy and boring, that they have no connection
with. Yet, the second part, Spoon River Anthology is the one I am most
collection of all epitaphs. Each poem is spoken from the dead person’s point
of view. It is about their life, and how they feel now, being dead with the
living around them. This poetry takes a serious and funny point of view. Many
of them blend stories together. All in all it shows how life’s dreams can be
add and teach, and those things I was taught and find very helpful. For
generations students have been taught the same plays, novels, and poetry. I
teachers need to mold our classrooms to fit that change. I am excited to see
how these choices could work in my classroom and how using other genres
world of teaching. I asked former teachers and my mentor for advice and
found myself talking not with former teachers, but peers in the same career
that I am. It was refreshing to see that teachers have great ideas in their
classrooms and great ideas for me to try and use. This project has given me
the chance to spread my wings and take the teacher role head on and make
any standards, or many things outside what I knew or read. I was so excited
to see what my peers would have to say about my choices. I also wanted to
see if there were any other ideas I could get from them to look at. I found
my students are getting the most out of the texts I chose. The main thing
that I was worried about was the texts I chose. I decided to add some
speeches and some short stories, graphic novels and other texts beyond a
novel. I did not know before if these would be good or not because many
the NCTE and Michigan Standards, I realized that the mixed texts I had were
what they wanted. It made me so glad to see that the ideas I have for texts
There were some great texts that I found second hand that really
helped me add a diverse mix of texts. In a former English class Maus was an
optional reading, I decided to read it after the class, and fell in love. It not
only told the story of the war, but also depicted the war. Adding a graphic
websites that suggested teachers teach it, and I decided to mix it up and
teach a graphic novel. I think this would also be a great choice for reluctant
readers, because it not only grapples a tough subject, but also makes it
classroom.
I did not want to revamp the total map I had created. There were a lot
of texts I had found and really enjoyed. When the standards called for a mix
of texts and Kelly told us that this is what we want to teach and a chance to
expand our ideas on teaching I decided to keep the mix I had. The other
issue that I had was after having it being reviewed by my peers I looked for
more ideas for my curricular map, I found too many ideas. It is so hard to
choose what to teach when there are so many classics and so many new
texts that I would love to teach. I know that year by year I could change
them up or create reading circles to offer more options. Also I could teach
Now that I have chosen the texts that I want to teach I had to look at
Genre Research Project so they see that English is not just novels, there is so
much more such as articles, video clips, audio clips, letters, speeches, and so
much more. Also having projects in any format they want that allows them to
use whatever creative juices they want. It also allows them to get up and talk
This project was a great opportunity for me. I was able to see tons of
ideas from the resources that my peers gave me and the resources that I
found online. The curricular map gave me ideas about what I would propose
to teach and maybe even try to teach in Lab. It was a great idea for us to get
ideas and to try new things. It is really interesting to see how we are able to
use our creative genius to create our classroom and the curricular we teach. I
am also glad we were given the chance to go back and look at our maps and
change them up, add new stuff, and reformat them. I know this will be a