Readings+&+Assignments+Spring+2011

Word Doc version of Syllabus (as of 1.26.11)

**__Course Schedule: Readings and Assignments__**

//Meet in your assigned rooms//
 * __January 26 / Class 1: Welcome Back & Welcome Brooklyn__**

//Meet in your assigned rooms//
 * __February 2/Class 2: Standards, Self-Portraits & Setting up Web Pages__**

Assignment(s) Due: ● Wiki Discussion ● Bring 3-5 B/W digital pictures copy/printouts that are related to winter/snow. Please save them on a flash drive or some other form of storage.

Readings Due: ● Reading on the Arts, Jigsaw - (please see wiki for links) ● Read Freeman, et al., 2003 “Home Run Books: Connecting Students to Culturally Relevant Texts.” //NABE News//, Jan/Feb 2003.
 * Read from the Blueprint for Visual Arts (Art ed Standards) []
 * In Blueprint for Visual Arts read pages 10 -28 & 45-52
 * Read NY State Tech Ed. Standards [|http://www.p12.nysed.gov/ciai/mst/pub/mststa1_2.pd]
 * Look over **The International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE®)** standards. []

**__February 9/Class 3: Exploring Brooklyn Past & Present (Trip to Bklyn. Pub. Lib)__** //Meet at the Brooklyn Public Library// 10 Grand Army Plaza, New York, NY 11225 (718) 230-2100  begin_of_the_skype_highlighting    (718) 230-2100  end_of_the_skype_highlighting

Assignment(s) Due: ● Wiki Discussion ● Identify a piece of non-fiction about Brooklyn to read for Lit Circles

Readings Due: ● Non-fiction Literature Circle piece (To be identified by groups) ●Daniels, H. 2002. "Expository Text in Literature Circles." //Voices from the Middle//, 9, 4 ● Harvey, S. 2002. //“//Nonfiction inquiry: Using real reading and writing to explore the world.” //Language Arts.// Sep 2002. 80, //1//

● Visit Brooklyn Public Library Web site (@http://www.brooklynpubliclibrary.org)

**__February 16/Class 4: Visual Art Study__** //Meeting together, 122 Meyer//

Assignment(s) Due: ● Wiki Discussion ● Literature Circle responsibilities to be posted on wiki

Readings Due: ● Revisit Seefeldt (Chapter 3) ● Short Piece for Literature Circles (TBD)

**__February 23/Class 5: Weeksville Heritage Center__** //(DOE Mid-winter Break)// //Meet at the Weeksville Heritage Center,// 1698 Bergen Street, Brooklyn, NY

//Note: Due to the size of the group, and our meeting time, we have been asked to try to schedule this trip in two visits -->//

Assignment(s) Due: ● Wiki Discussion ● Bring $4 admission fee for Weeksville

Readings Due: ● Visit Weeksville Web site, (www.weeksvillesociety.org) ● View examples of PSAs ([])

**__March 2/Class 6: PSA Workshop & Illustrating Children’s Literature Speaker__** //Meet together, 122 Meyer//

Assignments Due: ● Wiki Discussion ○ Brief write up on a visual artist of choice

Readings Due: ● Readings on visual artist of choice (Your own Research for wiki posting). Select and research the life of that artist.

**__March 9/Class 7: Unpacking Leon’s Story with PS 34 Students & Digital Story Making__** //Meet together, location TBA//

Assignment(s) Due: ● Wiki Discussion ● Midterm Research Paper Due ● Identification of Children’s Chapter Book for Literature Circles

Readings Due:


 * Re-visit //Leon’s Story//
 * Hathorn, P. 2005. “Using Digital Storytelling as a Literacy Tool for the Inner City Middle School Youth.” //The Charter Schools Resource Journal//, Vol. 1 No. 1 Winter 2005 - [|http://www.ehhs.cmich.edu/~tcsrj/phathorn.pdf]
 * Serriere, S.C. (2010). “Carpet Time Democracy; Digital Photography and Social Consciousness in the Earl Childhood Classroom.” In //The Social Studies//. 101, p. 60 – 68.


 * Visit Center for Digital Storytelling (CDS), ([]/)

**__March 16/No Class: NYU Spring Break__**

**__March 23/Class 8: The Ocean Hill –Brownsville Struggle with Guest Lecturer__** //Meet together, location TBA//

Assignment(s) Due: ● Wiki Discussion ● Literature Circle responsibilities for Chapter Book posted on wiki

Readings Due: ● Literature Circle on Children’s Novel · Podair, J. 2001. //The Ocean Hill-Brownsville Crisis: New York’s Antigone//

**__March 30/Class 9: Content through Spoken Word/Poetry__** //Meet together, location TBA//

Assignment(s) Due: ● Wiki Discussion

Readings Due: · almustafa, k. 2008. //Growing Up Hip Hop// · Article on poetry & spoken word in the classroom (TBD)

**__April 6/Class 10: Theater of the Oppressed__** //Meet together, location TBA//

Assignment(s) Due: ● Wiki Discussion

Readings Due: ● Flynn, R. //Curriculum-based Readers Theater: Setting the stage// ● Cockrell, Karen et al., //Theater of the Oppressed as a Self-Study Process: Understanding Ourselves as Actors in Teacher Education Classrooms// ● NYT, 9 May 2009, Obituary, Augusto Boal, creator of Theater of the oppressed

**__April 13/Class 11: Class Theater Performances, Bookmaking & Final Project Planning & Work Time__** //Meet together, location TBA//

Assignment(s) Due: ● Wiki Discussion

Readings Due: ● Visit //Susan Kapuscinski Gaylord’s Making Books with Children// site, (http://www.makingbooks.com/index.shtml)

Suggested: Quilts as Storytelling - []

**__April 20/ Class 12: Final Project Planning & Work Time__** //(DOE Spring Break 4/16 – 4/26)// Groups will meet individually with Cynthia and Edwin, location TBA

**__April 27/Class 13: Final Project Planning & Work Time__** Check in with assigned instructor

**__May 4/Class 14: Senior Curriculum Fair__** Meet together, location TBA

Assignment(s) Due: Copy of curriculum project, posted on wiki Curriculum project materials for Fair

**__May 18: COMMENCEMENT__**