Today during the Summer Institute we looked at genre theory and how we can expose our students to other genres. At first I struggled with this concept and how I could make it work in my classroom. I want to leave the Summer Institute with lots of ideas and concepts to take into my classroom. I feel like after today, I have so many to choose to replicate in my classroom.
This blog post is going to be more about ideas that I have for my demo presentation and just ideas in general that I could use for my classroom. Tonight I was trying to get inspired for my blog post and as I was running errands, I was listening to a fascinating conversation on NPR about GMO's and the various ramifications that surround them. This would be a great way to use food inquiry. I attached the link below.
NPR Article
As I was looking at the GMO debate, this article about 3 Kickstarter food projects popped into my news feed. This particular one I think students would find fascinating. Just spending thirty minutes on G+ communities gave me the start to some great ideas for incorporating food inquiry into the classroom. This Kickstarter piece would be a great start at the genre theory assignment.
Kickstarter Potato Salad
The English teacher in me really wants some content to use in my class and NPR again was a goldmine for me. This book is called Fictitious Dishes and according to the site's summary, "From the watery gruel of Oliver Twist to the seductive cupcakes from The Corrections, Dinah Fried offers photographic interpretations of culinary moments from classic and contemporary literature, partnered with text from the book that inspired its creation". This looks like a great piece to get me started on my food inquiry journey.
I leave you with this great quiz (or at least I think it is awesome). See if you can figure out which novel the picture is describing.
A Taste for Fiction... Literature Picture Quiz
I really want to check out this food from literature book. It sounds so interesting. I found a. Lot of good resources searching through google+ communities too. Is there some way you could have your students explore different g+ communities?
ReplyDeletethat's a great idea - would like to do that next year. g+ is blocked at our school, but it's worth a request to make it accessible.
DeleteI was thinking about the photographic interpretations and how you could use Monica B's demonstration. It would be interesting to put some pictures up from more well-known literature and have the students come up with their descriptions and guesses, and then go over their ideas and reasonings, and eventually tell them the answers.
ReplyDeleteI'm thinking about how these real world texts could really work alongside literature you might be teaching. Wondering about how you are seeing this as part of your classroom practice.
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DeleteI am not sure how I want to use this with my literature, but I have made a promise to myself to incorporate more non-fiction texts into my classroom and I think including some of these pieces could create some very interesting pieces and class discussion...still think about what I want to do with them, but I think it could be really awesome!
What's really speaking to me in this post is your sharing with us your process. You have this piece that you are wondering about, trying to pull together, and you are searching and pulling from all of these different places in your world. I don't know if it's got you yet in a place where you've got everything you want together for your demo….if you're like me, you'll never get there :)…but your learning process here is so awesome. I makes me feel more aware of mine, and it makes me want to rethink how to do a better job of encouraging my students to take such an approach. Thanks.
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