-ELA+8th+grade

Table of Contents | Projects |Vale

= Create Digital & Multimedia Storytelling/Books: =
 * ===[[image:http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-9GZgp5ihpFI/T81MdsYVsjI/AAAAAAAAKfg/bdBvBy2fPmU/s1600/widbook.png width="142" height="56" link="@http://www.widbook.com/"]] -Students can collaborate on the same book===

Poetry:
 * === [[image:valems/poetryapp.JPG]]Learning Lab - with questions and activities for specific various audiovisual poems : thePoetryFoundation===
 * ===[[image:valems/poetry stations logo.JPG width="217" height="117"]]Eight stations created by several NISD librarians to engage students & review poetry devices & TEKS. -See Mr. T. for details.===
 * ===[[image:valems/poetry flow.JPG width="177" height="103"]]View poems as they roll across screen of large smartphone (1,000s of to choose from) : poetryflow===

Figurative Language:

 * Powerpt intro. to symbols and metaphors: [[file:Introduction_to_Figurative_Language.ppt]]
 * Powerpoint introduction to figurative language: [[file:Introduction_to_Figurative_Language_in_Myths1[1].ppt]]
 * ===[[image:valems/flocabulary.JPG width="211" height="82"]]Intro similes and metaphors with the top 10 greatest examples in Hip-Hop/Rap music: Flocabulary===
 * ===How to create similes and metaphors: // Contact me for file //===
 * ===[[image:http://www.americanrhetoric.com/images/ARLogoFigures.jpg width="293" height="27"]] Figures of speech examples Great collection of video, audio & real world examples: americanrhetoric===
 * ===[[image:http://www.americanrhetoric.com/images/ARLogoFigures.jpg width="293" height="27"]] Figures of speech examples Great collection of video, audio & real world examples: americanrhetoric===

Research:

 * ===** ELA TEKS & skills re: Research covered by library ** research project: [[file:ELA TEKS in Library Research.doc.docx]]===
 * ===See Research Page===

= Drama: =


 * ===[[image:valems/worldbook drama.JPG width="412" height="25"]]Our very World Book Database has a ** Dramatic Learning ** section with great resource with: plays, lesson plans, various teaching tools, rubrics, play starters, posters for plays, monologues, & more (once logged in ** go to World Book Classroom **): click on pic===

=Anne Frank & the Holocaust: =
 * ==search created by our librarian, Mr. T - you can use search terms such as: ==
 * ===// 1920s, 1930s, depression, stock market, dust bowl, roaring 20s, causes of WWI, causes of WWII, New Deal, and try more & different terms!media type="custom" key="20937492"//===


 * [[image:valems/holocaust by CAHairyBear.jpg width="280" height="207"]] 2-Day & 5 Holocaust Stations in the Librar y -designed by librarian specialists - reviewing background history; following the lives of children in the Holocaust, & much more! -See Mr.T. for details.
 * ===Great site of Anne's story w/audio and walk around in the 3-D interactive of the Secret Annex: ICTmagic===
 * ===[[image:valems/Googlelittrips.JPG link="@http://www.googlelittrips.org/"]]- Googlelittrips - events in a novel about Anne Frank are mapped out on Google Earth trips===

=Persuasive Techniques: =


 * === Lesson plans : activities for assisting students in analyzing info. and identifying bias, perusasive techniques, and misinformation -FactCheckED===
 * ===Students flip through cool virtual magazine to analyze propaganda used: BAM!===