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Mental Health Matters: Using Literature Circles In The Grade 7 classroom To Talk About Hard Topics

Activity provided by Coralie Beghuin

This unit consists of students learning about mental health through a text of their choice (among 6 choices). Students are placed in a literature circle group in which they are to read and discuss their chosen book. Each text has some aspect of mental health (death, grief, Bipolar Disorder, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, etc.). Other than… Read More »Mental Health Matters: Using Literature Circles In The Grade 7 classroom To Talk About Hard Topics

Levels: Secondary, Secondary, Cycle 1, Secondary, Cycle 2
Topics: Listening, Reading, Talk, Writing/Production
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19 file(s) 2.28 MB
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Building Literacy and Understanding About the Holocaust Through Learning Stations

Activity provided by Laura Leblanc

In this project, a partnership of two teachers work to build a unit that teaches students about the Holocaust, while at the same time raising literacy levels and  encouraging critical thinking. Importantly, materials and activities are differentiated through the use of learning stations.

Levels: Secondary, Secondary, Cycle 1
Topics: Listening, Reading, Writing/Production
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Types: PDF
9 file(s) 33.82 MB
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Reading Graphic Novels Through Critical Lenses to Recognize Power Imbalances and Discrimination

Activity provided by Alison Holloway

The overarching concept that guides this unit is “who is on the inside, and who is on the outside?” Students will explore stereotypes, media portrayals, biases, privilege, intersectionality, and race/gender/ability as a social construction. Two essential questions that inform this unit are: 1) What is discrimination? and 2) How does discrimination persist in contemporary society?

Levels: Secondary, Cycle 2
Topics: Media, Reading, Talk
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3 file(s) 15.19 MB
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Let’s Get Graphic

Activity provided by Cecilia Anne Coyne

Wanting to move away from “I like it” or “I didn’t like it” when her students were responding to a text, this project is designed to help students to become more confident expressing their own opinions, ideas and observations about texts without teacher prompting, and to learn to evaluate what texts mean to them for themselves.

Levels: Secondary, Secondary, Cycle 2
Topics: Reading, Talk, Writing/Production
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Introduction to Spoken Word Poetry

Activity provided by Anne Beamish

This unit can serve as an introduction to the world of spoken word poetry. The activities included serve as both the immersion into text that precedes and informs the writing process, as well as the first steps into the writing process. Please see the document Introduction to Spoken Word Poetry by Anne Beamish for full unit… Read More »Introduction to Spoken Word Poetry

Levels: Secondary, Secondary, Cycle 1, Secondary, Cycle 2
Topics: Reading, Talk, Writing/Production
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Types: Slides
6 file(s) 7.73 MB
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