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Sharing Our Stories: A Personal Narrative Literacy Curriculum For Grades 3-5, Casey Adler
Sharing Our Stories: A Personal Narrative Literacy Curriculum For Grades 3-5, Casey Adler
Graduate Student Independent Studies
This thesis began out of my curiosity about the ways to set up a classroom to best support growing readers and writers. As my exploration into literacy continued, I decided to create a personal narrative unit with several foundational literacy skills, strategies, and practices for students to develop. With variety, authenticity, and modeling as the key pillars in planning, alignment to skills and standards will be embedded in genuine literacy experiences. The choice to engage in a genre study of personal narrative was due to its developmental appropriateness, potential for community building, and opportunity to share a range of stories. …
Teaching The Civil War With An Interdisciplinary Approach, Megan Riehle
Teaching The Civil War With An Interdisciplinary Approach, Megan Riehle
Honors Projects
When creating a unit for middle school students in Social Studies, getting students to do more than memorize facts and dates is always my number one goal. Students need more than memorization of facts to fully grasp and have a handle on historical content that is vastly multifaceted. The Ohio standards have deemed eighth grade as the point when students intensely study the Civil War. However, how teachers instruct students on the Civil War is entirely up to them. There is an immeasurable amount of ways to go about teaching such a heavy and difficult topic; however, I chose to …