2015-12-14 14:13
Advanced Placement Literature and Composition Syllabus 2015-1016Instructor: Ms. FaulknerOffice Hours: 3:30- 4:00, during 1st lunch, or by appointment Email:[email protected]… Read More
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This site explores issues of adolescent literacy, including reporting original research, literature reviews on reading research, and has excellent lesson plans and projects and reflections on those.
2015-12-13 14:50
AP Language and Composition Ms. Bobbi Faulkner … Read More
2015-12-12 14:29
"You have to admit it's pretty impressive that a toy that can't connect to Wi-Fi, doesn't have Bluetooth capabilities - heck, doesn't even have batteries - continues to be iconic and have re… Read More
2015-12-12 02:26
Lessons from Skydiving: Make Your Sixty Seconds CountProcrastination. We all do it. But not while skydiving, although I do know a couple of people who have slightly procras… Read More
2015-12-11 21:18
Preparing to landThe first time I jumped this canopy, I was distracted by the sheer beauty of the sun streaming through the brightly colored cells.It used to be that as soon as my parachute… Read More
2015-12-11 19:48
Today's lesson from skydiving: Study Like Your Life Depends on It!My marked-up SIMIt may very well depend on it one day (your life, that is, may depend on what you have studied). How d… Read More
2015-12-11 18:46
Crafting Your Writing for Specific Audiences: A Mini LessonEssential Questions1. How does considering the rhetorical triangle shape what we write?2. How do we write differently for different… Read More
2015-05-22 16:16
Oh No! My Altimeter is Broken: Tales from a Crazy Skydiving StudentJump C-2, for the second time. Jump 7. It had been nearly two months since I had last jumped due to weath… Read More
2015-05-22 15:32
It was my Cat B jump. I felt less nervous and more relaxed in freefall. I had this skydiving thing down--jump out of the plane, do some practice handle touches, fall stable and b… Read More
2015-05-01 13:17
I. Email Cut-Up Poetry Assignment … Read More
2015-04-24 16:37
A student climbs a tree on Earth DayToday was Earth Day! A joyous reason for me to act like a hippie and for that to be socially acceptable, and so I took full advantage of the situati… Read More
2015-04-22 00:27
Success!Where will you take life? We take life beyond “normal” limits, sky high, sky life. The sky is NOT our limit for we have NO limit. You have NO limi… Read More
2015-04-15 01:50
Chapter 8 of Perfetti's (1985) Reading Ability: "The Development of Reading Ability." Read and respond. What do you learn about reading from this article? How can you apply this… Read More
2015-04-15 01:31
View Finder HaikuToday, in celebration of National Poetry Month, I challenged my AP (Advanced Placement) Literature and Composition students to the 'ku challenge, described in detail on my p… Read More
2015-04-15 01:20
Nature PoemsToday, go outside and get your hands and feet dirty! Look beneath a rock, examine the roots of a tree, or dig through soil and write about whatever you find lurking there:… Read More
2015-04-09 14:38
Claim/Data/Commentary Mini-Lesson--Writing a Strong Argumentative ParagraphClaimWhat is a claim? A claim is the point you are trying to prove. When you are writing an essay… Read More
2015-04-08 17:42
Catch-22 Mini Essay Topic #1: CharacterizationDIRECT and INDIRECT CHARACTERIZATIONDirect CharacterizationTwo techniques that writers use to create character are "direct" and "indirect" chara… Read More
2015-03-27 03:01
Lesson IntroductionThe following is an assignment I like to use in my English classes when watching clips from Freedom Writers and teaching with the book. I have successfully used… Read More
2015-03-10 20:02
Poetic Inquiry: Hello Kitty--A Feminist (symbol)?Dressed as HK to share my poem with my AP studentsIn response to Dr. Sandra L. Faulkner's Hello Kitty Goes to College: Poems about… Read More
2015-03-06 18:59
A Response to Spafford and Grosser’s “Controversial Theories”, A Chapter in Dyslexia and Reading Difficulties : Research and Resource Guide for Working with all Strugg… Read More
2015-03-06 07:06
Using JSTOR's Teaching Resources In Your (English) ClassroomIt Started with an Email...I recently received an email from JSTOR announcing their new Teaching Resources, an email I am so… Read More
2015-03-05 06:05
http://www.ltl.appstate.edu/prodlearn/prodlearn/summer_2007/Faulkner_Bobbi/art3.htmlUsing I Poems to Teach Poetry, Literacy, and a Sense of Place to English Language LearnersContextThen: Thi… Read More
2015-03-04 21:24
Students in my SIOP English II class overcoming their shyness and presenting in front of the classHow SIOP (Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol) Meets the North Carolina Professional… Read More
2015-03-04 20:13
Be a star writer! Use this rubric to internalize the characteristics of upper level writing!AP Literature and Composition General Rubric … Read More
2015-03-04 20:03
Adapted from Atwell, N., Lessons That Change Writers, Portsmouth, NH, 2002 A student works on a draft of her essay during writer's workshopGuidelines for Writer's WorkshopExpectati… Read More
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