Last week I read What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami. An excerpt can be found in the article, Haruki Murakami: Talent is nothing without focus and endurance.
As
someone who occasionally runs and writes, I loved the content of this
book because I’m interested in learning about how people work and
construct their life routines. I plan to use the above excerpt as part
of my Personal Literacies unit. In this unit, students read texts on the
themes of reading and writing by authors such as Terry Tempest Williams and George Orwell.
Then the students reflect on their own literacy experiences and how
these have affected their attitudes about reading and writing. As I
prepare to teach this unit again, I’m going to further develop these
ideas and teaching materials.
This is the first in a series of posts about the personal literacies unit.
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Showing posts with label reading. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 06, 2013
Thursday, December 27, 2007
TESOL Resource Center
The TESOL Resource Center (TRC) is an online collection of lesson plans, activities, tips,papers, presentations, and other resources for the ESL/EFL professional. According to their web site, the TRC is sponsoring a contest to win two free nights hotel stay for the 2009 TESOL Convention in Denver, Colorado, or a gift certificate for TESOL publications. If you are a TESOL member, all you have to do to enter the contest is to have two of your original resources approved for inclusion in the TRC by June 2008!
This year, I participated in the TRC's New York, New York contest by submitting two lesson plans. They are titled "A Sentimental Object" and "Expressing an Opinion: Marriage or Cohabitation". I submitted the lesson plans using the template provided on the TRC web site, and after some time I received feedback on my lessons from the peer reviewers. After revising my lesson plans, I resubmitted them, and they were included on the TRC web site. The entire process took about three months. This experience was valuable not only because I was able to share my lessons and learn a bit about having my materials peer-reviewed, but also because I was lucky enough to be one of the recipients of two free nights lodging for the TESOL Convention in New York! Just give it a try and you'll never know what will happen!
More lesson plans
Reading is Interesting! (an EFL/ESL reading lesson plan using K-W-L and combining reading, surveys, and fun)
Superstitions (an EFL/ESL reading lesson plan incorporating multiple learning styles)
This year, I participated in the TRC's New York, New York contest by submitting two lesson plans. They are titled "A Sentimental Object" and "Expressing an Opinion: Marriage or Cohabitation". I submitted the lesson plans using the template provided on the TRC web site, and after some time I received feedback on my lessons from the peer reviewers. After revising my lesson plans, I resubmitted them, and they were included on the TRC web site. The entire process took about three months. This experience was valuable not only because I was able to share my lessons and learn a bit about having my materials peer-reviewed, but also because I was lucky enough to be one of the recipients of two free nights lodging for the TESOL Convention in New York! Just give it a try and you'll never know what will happen!
More lesson plans
Reading is Interesting! (an EFL/ESL reading lesson plan using K-W-L and combining reading, surveys, and fun)
Superstitions (an EFL/ESL reading lesson plan incorporating multiple learning styles)
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