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How Did We Get Here?
How Did We Get Here?
Do your students ask why they have to learn something? Or why the world works one way over another?
Often there is a textual record that can help them understand why and give them some new insight into what they are studying. Work with the Media Center help you bring that history to life for students to see your subject in new ways.
Tracing Archaic Language as an Example:
Tracing Archaic Language as an Example:
ELA faces students questioning why Shakespeare (or anyone else) writes like they do. Why don't they just come out and say it with all those "thou's" and "thy's"?
To help see the path there, we traced English's development over the centuries, accompanied with material connections to the time that sparked student imagination.
How_to_pronounce_Middle_English.pdf
Artifacts in Action to help students build connections.
Artifacts in Action to help students build connections.
Immersive Experiences
Immersive Experiences
To help build student connections with material, sometimes programs and resources already exist that the Media Center can help track down and/or adapt for our students.
This year, we are adapting a college program, Reacting to the Past, that encourages students to reflect on key moments in history through role-playing. Students get a role sheet and background on the historical period that they use to write, present, and argue for a reaction aligned with their role.
Reacting develops skills in public speaking, writing, and collaboration while applying student knowledge to a real-world, historical situation.
The program we are using focuses on literary journals during the late Russian Empire. We are pairing it with a novella by Leo Tolstoy.
Russian Literary Journals Instructors Manual.pdfPage updated
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