Media and Genre-Based Units
Schools and teachers usually organize ELA curriculum by novel, theme, or genre, or some combination of those three.
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- Feb 16, 2023
- 2 min
Short Story Adaptations
Creating a short film used to be a long and difficult process, so I gave up on it. But then it became much easier to shoot and edit video.
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- Jan 11, 2023
- 3 min
Teaching Media Literacy With Short Stories
It’s not easy to find literature that gets students to talk about the world they live in. It can be done with any novel ...
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- Dec 31, 2021
- 3 min
Teaching Narrative Mode with Short Stories
Narrative mode is what makes fiction different from essays, history, and art forms like video and images. Without fiction ...
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- Mar 29, 2021
- 2 min
The Magic of Storytelling: Real and Fictional
I recently listened to the podcast “The Story of Your Life” on Hidden Brain by Shankar Vedantam. I felt like I was listening to ...
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- Feb 19, 2021
- 3 min
Magical Realism: Interpretation and Creation
Magical realism goes beyond the place that a metaphor takes us. It goes beyond the realm of comparison.
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- Feb 13, 2021
- 2 min
Bite-sized Prose, Buffet Conversations
Because distributing books has been a challenge this year, some of my students have been reading novels on their computer. From the...
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- Apr 20, 2020
- 4 min
Why Short Fiction?
This is the magic of fiction. Depending on the story, the author must pick and choose what facts and thoughts the audience will know and not
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- Oct 30, 2019
- 4 min
The Imaginary Reality of Technology and Fiction
More and more, the screen determines who we are, and not our relationships with real people.
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