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Individual
Clip Descriptions
Video
Clip 1. Introducing the Envisionment-Building
Classroom
Running time: 18:55
In
this clip, noted researcher Dr. Judith Langer lists and explains
the hallmarks of an envisionment-building classroom —
places where students work at their highest abilities to interact
with literature. Her comments are illustrated by classroom
examples. Dr. Langer serves as chief content expert for this
and other libraries and workshops in the Envisioning Literature
series.
Video
Clip 2. Building a Literary
Community
Running time: 18:55
This
video clip brings its audience to Houston, Texas and Joe Bernhart's
diverse seventh grade language arts classroom, where students
work in small groups with a variety of contemporary young
adult literature. Through example, Mr. Bernhart demonstrates
how he works with the groups, encouraging them to go further
in their understanding of the text.
Video
Clip 3. Asking Questions
Running time: 18:55
Ana
Hernandez' seventh grade gifted and talented language arts
class in Miami, Florida is the focus of this clip. There,
Ms. Hernandez directs students to pose their own questions
as they read Sharon Draper's Tears of a Tiger, discussing
major issues of the text and living in it as they consider
the actions of the characters involved.
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Clip 4. Facilitating Discussion
Running time: 18:55
In
this clip, the audience visits Tanya Schnabl's sixth grade
language arts class in rural Sherburne, New York as they interact
with Among the Hidden, Margaret Peterson Haddix's futuristic
text. Ms. Schnabl encourages students to discuss the text
on many levels, demonstrating one way a teacher can help students
move forward from first impressions of a text to digest its
lessons and make them their own.
Video
Clip 5. Seminar Discussion
Running time: 18:55
Dorothy
Franklin's seventh grade language arts classroom in the heart
of urban Chicago, Illinois is featured in this clip. A seminar
discussion in this diverse classroom focuses on Langston Hughes'
short story, "Passing." Ms. Franklin encourages
her students to take on the perspective of the characters
they meet in the text, with some surprising and satisfying
results.
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Clip 6. Dramatic Tableaux
Running time: 18:55
This
clip features the seventh grade Berlin, Maryland classroom
of Dr. Jan Currence, where she and her students interact with
Christopher Paul Curtis' The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963:
A Novel. Dr. Currence first models and then engages students
in tableaux activities, in which students draw on their experience
with the text to bring it to life for others.
Video
Clip 7. Readers as Individuals
Running time: 18:55
A
visit to Flora Tyler's sixth grade language arts class in
Las Cruces, New Mexico shows how one teacher works to monitor
and work with students who are each reading a different literary
text, using models offered by writing and reading workshop
techniques.
Video
Clip 8. The Teacher's Role in
a Literary Community
Running time: 18:55
Barry
Hoonan's multi-grade language arts class on Bainbridge Island
in Washington is featured in this video clip. His fifth and
sixth grade students look at a variety of contemporary young
adult fiction grouped under the theme, "Life isn't Fair."
Texts include Drawing Lessons by Tracey Mack, Freak
the Mighty by R. W. Philbrick, and Stargirl by
Jerry Spinelli. Students meet in small groups to focus on
each text, while Mr. Hoonan demonstrates one way teachers
can tactfully and effectively integrate themselves into these
discussions to help students go further in their understanding
of the text.
Video
Clip 9. Whole-Group Discussion
Running time: 18:55
A
visit to Linda Rief's eighth grade language arts class in
Durham, New Hampshire gives audience members a chance to participate
along with the literary community Ms. Rief has established
there as they work with Lois Lowry's The Giver. Here,
the class works as a group to look closely into the text and
see the ways in which its themes relate to their current lives.
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