IRA Conference Materials: Chicago 2006

51st Annual IRA Convention Materials: Chicago 2006

Teaching Teachers and Teaching Students: Interactive Strategies Across Secondary Content Areas

Materials listed below are from Sara Spachman's part of the workshop: "Climbing into the Character's Head: Giving Students a Leg Up with Scaffolding"

(Materials available for download as Word documents only.)

ACTIVITY SEQUENCE A:	ACTIVITY SEQUENCE B:
"Born of Man and Woman"	"Journal of a Wife Beater"

Artifacts from the narrator's journal (not available on-line) (I created these artifacts myself from pages ripped from magazines which might have been available to the narrator as "journal paper" in his/her/its cellar. A student of mine copied out the first few paragraphs of "Born of Man and Woman" onto these papers, then I crumpled them, spilled water on them, and rubbed dirt into them.)	Anticipation Guide (and "Revisited" Guide) for the "Mystery Text"
	"Mystery Text" (I merely excerpted the first journal entry from the story "Journal of a Wife Beater" to use as the mystery text.)
	Inner Voice Sheet (thanks to Cris Tovani)
Observation, Questioning, & Inference Chart	Human Types Vocabulary (partial) / (whole)
Human Types Vocabulary (partial) / (whole)	Nitsa's Journal
"Born of Man and Woman" by Richard Matheson can be found in: Goodman, Roger, ed. 75 Short Masterpieces: Stories from the World's Literature. New York: Bantam, 1961.	"Journal of a Wife Beater" by Harry Mark Petrakis can be found in: Petrakis, Harry Mark. Collected Stories. Chicago: Lake View Press, 1987.
Blank Post Card (for during-reading writing assignment)

For materials touching on other parts of this workshop, click here (Southwest IRA Convention Materials).

Questions? Please contact S. Spachman: sspach@hotmail.com.