Full Description
Combining detailed lesson plans, evaluation rubrics, samples of student work, classroom management problems (and solutions) with pertinent commentary, " Naked Teaching" describes a new approach to teaching English that fosters engagement, intensity, and achievement. " Naked Teaching, " includes an interdisciplinary unit on teaching government, religion, history, writing, literature, mythology, and heroes in highly engaging ways in preparation for AP exams in English and history. Middle School, high school experienced and inexperienced teachers.
Contents
Preface. Naked teachingKunkel. 1. The essential environment: Establishing tone, minimizing disruptions, and fostering creativity in the classroom, Kunkel. 2. Growing up: Using students' childhood experiences to explore sixteen different kinds of writing, Baines. 3. AP Aliens: An interdisciplinary unit involving poetry, legends and heros, history, government, law, peace, and war, Kunkel. 4. Screenplays: Reading, writing, thinking, and performance via the moving image, Baines. 5. Novel expectations: An experience encompassing the entire school year, wherein students elevate personal and peer expectations, develop themselves as critical readers, and author novels for publication-yes, novels, Kunkel. 6. Conduct of life: Teaching philosophy and rhetoric with an edge, Baines. 7. Naked and fearless, Kunkel. 8. The Hater Theory: Notes from a sixteen-year-old on the prospect of real life, Brian Harris, eleventh grade.
