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Hello. Welcome to Week six.
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So we have this week next week and one more
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week, and that's all of the time that we have
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together. So we have a lot still to cover.
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And this week I really want to focus on the
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ideas, that kind of bridge, the gap between what you
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have been talking about and what will finish thes eight
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weeks up with.
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So one of those things is how to approach teaching
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these things.
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So this week, you have a few things to do.
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You have finishing up your reading, your discussion post, and
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then you're going to be creating a mini lesson plan.
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So you're gonna come up with the next one or
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two activities and an overview of how you're going to
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approach these concepts.
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Now, remember that there are a lot of tools out
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there for you thio use and you to grab from
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and borrow and get inspired by.
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So don't forget that.
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Don't limit yourself to creating this out of the blue.
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Use your research as to how you could approach some
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of these things.
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You could create a power point.
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You could create an activity that they need to do
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in order to reinforce some of these things.
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There's a lot that you could do, and there's more
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information on the assignment.
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So we're gonna be looking at how to approach teaching
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characters in the classroom.
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And this is a great little comic that I just
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wanna, um, look at together, it says as he's giving
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a book report today.
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I thought it had a pretty good story and interesting
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characters. I really didn't like the font and one of
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the reasons I find this funny and there's a lot.
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I mean, I almost used Calvin and Hobbes and things
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like that, but is sometimes our students missed the point
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that happens.
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They don't really understand why we're approaching something or why
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we're reading something or why we're talking about something or
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you name it.
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It happens, right?
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So how do we as educators approach different ways of
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reinforcing these things?
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So can we take a book like Charlie and the
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Chocolate Factory front to cover, talk about character and talk
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about, um, how it's approached?
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Absolutely. And that's what you're going to practice today.
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You're gonna be using the characters from our book to
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create a many lessons on character and what that feels
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natural for so many educators in the elementary, even middle
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school ages because we're usually focusing on a book for
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a reason.
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But as we very are teaching styles or were even
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in upper class and say we're more heavily in science,
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there's a disconnect.
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We talked about that a few weeks ago with how
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we incorporate story and with that character into our classrooms.
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So in the grade school setting, whether you're teaching history,
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math or science, using a biography of memoir, um, a
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fun clip or something that engages their interest in why
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we're looking at what we're looking at, character and story
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go hand in hand with that.
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So if you're using saying like the little chapter book
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that I showed you about Einstein in your science class
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or one on Frederick Douglas or George Washington or my
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son was reading a Children's book in kindergarten on President
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Taft and getting stuck in the bathtub.
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But it's introducing not only President's Day but a fun
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way of Oh, there's more presidents than just George Washington,
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which you know in kindergarten that's pretty much the only
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one he knows.
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Eso, history, science math reading.
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They can all be woven together.
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So making sure that you reinforce understanding, character and the
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wise because characters drive situations.
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Remember what we talked about last week without those strong
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characters? Where is this story going to go?
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So you have to have that in reinforcing that.
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Under understanding that and as they get older, they come
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to those, um, thoughts much more quickly and deeply.
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And sometimes they'll see things that surprise you.
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That's the probably the most rewarding thing about teaching is
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every class is too unique.
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Every student is unique, and sometimes that means their perspectives
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help you see something new or in a different way.
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So keep that in mind.
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The other thing you need to remember is that we're
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also dealing with standards, so I'm going to read you
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the common core standards that deals with us on.
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I believe it's R L 4.3 or something like that.
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Anyway, here's what it says it says describe a character
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setting or event in a story or draw, drawing up
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specific details in that text, Dr Thoughts, words or actions,
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for example.
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So that's the common core for, say, believe that's like
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greats for reading level for um.
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What that means, though, is you have the opportunity to
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decide how and when you address some of those core
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standards, but not only addressing them, reinforcing them.
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So by taking a book like this and introducing character,
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then when you're doing history, Remember when we were talking
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about Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Connect, helping them connect
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those dots?
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Then, as they're older, they'll start connecting those dots themselves.
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I'm teaching a critical reading and writing class.
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We read some ancient texts and ancient Chinese text on
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ancient Greek and an ancient Roman text, and now we're
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reading a memoir by Trevor Noah, who is from South
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Africa. If those of you don't know who Trevor Noah
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is from South Africa, he's currently alive.
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He's in his thirties.
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He's the host of The Daily Show.
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It's very modern, and my students for the first time
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helps me see Yeah, but this is what we were
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reading last week, and I mean, I've seen those connections
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before, but they connected it in a new way in
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a new perspective.
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It was fantastic.
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Our dialogue shifted, but in a great way.
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As we were looking at some of those connections, so
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leave yourself room to explore that.
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So we are going to focus on Rolled all and
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characters and your lesson development for this week, but hint
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hidden. You're going to be looking at something different for
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your final project.
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So teaching character.
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But let's look at um, some of the lesson plan
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ideas that you can kind of use and work with
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and go on and take.
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Remember, we talked a little bit about how book Karen
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help with understanding character.
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So this is a very simple book.
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It's called It's a Book, but the personality of the
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characters are very, very simple and very straightforward.
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Very interesting that we have.
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It's a mouse.
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It's a jackass.
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It's a monkey.
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It's the book.
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So we have this and the reason it is.
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I mean, obviously this is a little bit more adult
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than a normal Children's book, but this is also in
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English. I believe it's British.
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No, it's New York.
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Uh um, and what we're looking at here is this
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unique approach to reading, and it's a very cool, modern
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way of looking at it.
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So the character is a very simple but We have
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one character who is reading a book and then one
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character, the the donkey or jackass is confused as to
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what is happening here and is asking questions off.
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Well, what's going on?
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Help me explain because I'm stuck in a modern world
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and some of us have students that we might come
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across that are a lot of that.
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So what do you do?
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What do you have there?
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It's a book.
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How do you scroll down?
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I don't I turned the page in the book.
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Do you blogged with it?
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No, it's a book.
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Where's your mouth?
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It's just like, Can you make the characters fight?
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Nope. Book Can it text?
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Tweet? Why, if I know.
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Can it do this?
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No. Let's see.
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The frustrations to character development can be in the pictures
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as well.
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It's a book look, okay, are not a long term
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himself are in agreement.
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Then he and she eats his broad cutlets laughing, and
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Tim was petrified.
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The end was upon him.
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Then in the distance, the ship, a wide smile, played
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across the lads.
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So he's reading Mom's until Children.
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But too many letters.
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I'll fix it and it's touch speak.
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I don't know if you can see that.
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L J F uh, Okay.
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Oh, Jim.
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Highly face export.
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Frowny face, exclamation point.
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Smiley face.
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And then our reaction.
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So what else can this book to you?
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Does it need a password?
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No. God made a screen name?
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No, it's a book he's looking at.
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Are you going to give me my book back?
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No. Bye.
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Going to the library.
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Dori are charged it up when I'm done, you don't
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have to.
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Tips is out.
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The mouse says it.
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You don't have Thio.
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It's a book, jackass.
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Now, okay, Would I recommend this for pre K class
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or can you know?
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But your junior high and high school students might be
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really interested to see what character developed have happened in
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a Children's technically a Children's book that creates this atmosphere
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that people in our modern world can relate to.
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So there are so many opportunities for us.
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So Lane Smith, it's a book is a great way
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of a printing care in a completely new way that
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can have a technology element of Okay, let's talk about
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this. What do you think a students technology is doing
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to your learning to your experiences.
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How could we open up that dialogue, whether that's in
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a science class and we're looking at technology and what
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NASA is doing with the Mars Rover or whatever it's
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gonna be, how can we then be that guide and
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help direct that thought in those plans?
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So in Part two, we're gonna look at some specific
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examples. You are not held within these examples, and many
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of these air a little bit younger for a few
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of you, as far as the ages that you would
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like to be teaching on.
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That's the other thing I want you to remember focus
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on the age or grade.
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You specifically want to teach and approach this book that
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way. So some of you that are looking at working
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with older students this could be a little bit different.
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Maybe you want to combine analysis, essay or look at
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comparisons to a different book or, um, what it means
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to take something and translated into a different format like
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film. So you can you have a lot of opportunity,
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but it's going to take some thinking it's going to
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take some exploration and finding some things I've given you.
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One resource that you've had from the beginning of our
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resource lists the teacher's pay teachers website.
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Some of it you might recognize.
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Okay, they're all over.
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Google is your friend.
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When you're searching is a teacher, um, have others who
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have done some of the work help you.
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And then when we come back in part two, well,
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look at those examples and hopefully it'll maybe spark some
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ideas or give you some more direction.