An afternoon session following a co-taught grade 9 science class. A focus on including all learners.

1. It’s All about Thinking – Collaborating
to Support All Learners
Reading, Writing, Thinking Strategies
Secondary
Prince
Rupert
January
10,
2014
Faye
Brownlie
www.slideshare.net

2. Lit
12:
prac?ce
without
penalty
Naryn
Searcy,
Pen?cton
• Goal:
learn
how
to
represent
your
understanding
of
a
poem
in
a
different
ways
• Poet:
Robert
Burns
– Auld
Lang
Syne
(read
aloud)
– To
a
Mouse
(teams)

3. 1.
Read
aloud
and
prac?ce
stanza
with
partner
2.
Connect
to
themes:
– Mankind
has
broken
its
union
with
nature
– Even
our
best
laid
plans
oRen
do
not
work
out
3.
Microcosm
&
universal
truths

4. Assignment
1. Mouse
Dance
–
all
8
stanzas
(2-­‐4
students)
2. Comic
(1-­‐2
students)
3. Reduced
poetry
(1-­‐2
students)

5. Criteria
• Demonstrate
understanding
of
the
meaning
of
all
8
stanzas
of
the
poem
• Recognize
and
demonstrate
the
2
themes

6. Feedback
• What
worked?
• What’s
missing?
• What’s
next?

7. Robert
Burns
(1759-­‐1796)To
a
Mouse
On
Turning
Up
Her
Nest
with
the
Plough,
November,
1785
Wee,
sleeket,
cowrin,
Im'rous
beasIe,
Oh,
what
a
panic's
in
thy
breasIe!
Thou
need
na
start
awa
sae
hasty
Wi'
bickerin
braNle!
I
wad
be
laith
to
rin
an'
chase
thee
Wi'
murd'ring
paNle!

10. Reduced Poem
Poor
li]le
mouse
petrified
Don’t
run
away
quickly!
Humans
break
nature’s
contract
–
theme
1
No
trust
well
deserved
You
don’t
request
much
Have
too
much
myself
Oh
your
house
gone!
December
approaches
uncomfortably
close
Security
beneath
the
chill
Soon
destroyed
with
cut
Home
lost
high
price
Not
alone
in
lesson:
Best
plans
oRen
fail
–
theme
2
Mouse
lucky
because
humans
Regret
past/fear
future

11. Mouse Dance Notes
1. Mouse
(Ma])
gathering
materials
for
winter,
builds
house
(Boyd)
2. Mouse
is
shivering
–
symbolizing
winter
3. Famer
&
his
equipment
(Ethan
&
Corey)
destroy
mouse’s
house
–
represents
theme
that
man
breaks
nature’s
fickle
bond
4. Farmer
feels
bad,
tries
to
apologize
to
mouse
(nature)
5. Mouse
won’t
accept
forgiveness
–
nothing
leR
to
build
a
house
6. Mouse
comes
back
and
shoots
the
farmer
7. Mouse
has
heart
a]ack
–
represents
the
theme
that
plans
oRen
backfire
–
best
laid
plans
of
mouse
and
men
don’t
work!

12. Beginning with images…

17. Marco Cianfanelli, of
Johannesburg, sculptor
50
ten
metre
high
laser
cut
steel
plates
set
into
the
landscape,
represen5ng
the
50
year
anniversary
of
when
and
where
Mandela
was
captured
and
arrested
in
1962
(prior
to
his
27
years
of
incarcera5on).
Standing
at
a
par5cular
point
(presumably
the
spot
where
the
people
are
standing
in
Photo
#2),
the
columns
come
into
focus
and
the
image
of
Mandela
can
be
seen.
At
Natal
Midlands