Perspectives of Power: Ela Lessons for Gifted and Advanced Learners in Grades 6-8 Contributor(s): Mofield, Emily (Author), Stambaugh, Tamra (Author) |
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ISBN: 1618214934 ISBN-13: 9781618214935 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $40.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2015 |
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BISAC Categories: - Education | Teaching Methods & Materials - Language Arts - Education | Special Education - Gifted - Education | Teaching Methods & Materials - Reading & Phonics |
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 8.55" W x 11.02" (0.36 lbs) 244 pages |
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Publisher Description: Winner of the 2015 NAGC Curriculum Studies Award Perspectives of Power explores the nature of power in literature, historical documents, poetry, and art. Lessons include a major focus on rigorous evidence-based discourse through the study of common themes and content-rich, challenging nonfiction and fictional texts. This unit, developed by Vanderbilt University's Programs for Talented Youth and aligned to the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), guides students to explore the power of oppression; the power of the past, present, and future; and the power of personal response by engaging in simulations, skits, creative projects, literary analyses, Socratic seminars, and debates. Texts illuminate content extensions that interest many high-ability students including bystander effect, social class structure, game theory, the use and abuse of technology, cultural conflict, the butterfly effect, women's suffrage, and surrealism as each relates to power. Lessons include close readings with text-dependent questions, choice-based differentiated products, rubrics, formative assessments, and ELA writing tasks that require students to analyze texts for rhetorical features, literary elements, and themes through argument, explanatory, and/or prose-constructed writing. Ideal for pre-AP and honors courses, the unit features texts from Emily Dickinson, William B. Yeats, and Charles Perrault; art from Moyo Okediji and Salvador Dali; and speeches by Elie Wiesel, Susan B. Anthony, and John F. Kennedy. As a result from the learning in the unit, students will be able to examine powerful influences in their own lives and identify their own power in personal responsibility. Grades 6-8 |
Contributor Bio(s): Stambaugh, Tamra: - Tamra Stambaugh, Ph.D., is an associate research professor in special education and executive director of Programs for Talented Youth at Vanderbilt University.Mofield, Emily: - Emily Mofield, Ed.D., is the Lead Consulting Teacher for Gifted Education in Sumner County Schools, TN. She has been recognized as teacher of the year by the Tennessee Association for the Gifted. |