Saturday, October 24, 2009

Materials for YAL Workshop on Cory Doctorow's Little Brother

See links below:



http://www.neiu.edu/~yal/2009/LittleBrother/Little Brother_Character_and_Vocab_Lists.doc


http://www.neiu.edu/~yal/2009/LittleBrother/Little_Brother_PowerPoint.ppt


http://www.neiu.edu/~yal/2009/LittleBrother/Little_Brother_cover-small.jpg

Friday, October 23, 2009

Article on Chicago teachers Building Vocabulary

http://www.ascd.org/publications/newsletters/education_update/aug06/vol48/num08/Chicago_Teachers_Learn_to_Build_Academic_Vocabulary.aspx

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Links to Standards Related to YAL Workshop for Little Brother

ENGLISH

http://www.isbe.net/ils/ela/standards.htm

http://www.isbe.net/ils/ela/capd.htm

http://www.isbe.net/ils/ela/stage_J/assessment.htm

http://www.isbe.net/ils/ela/stage_J/1AJ.pdf


SOCIAL SCIENCE

http://www.isbe.state.il.us/ils/social_science/standards.htm

http://www.isbe.state.il.us/ils/social_science/capd.htm

http://www.isbe.state.il.us/ils/social_science/stage_J/assessment.htm

http://www.isbe.state.il.us/ils/social_science/stage_J/14D_16DJ.pdf

http://www.isbe.state.il.us/ils/social_science/stage_J/18B_18CJ.pdf

Short Review of Little Brother for Wired Magazine

http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2008/09/geekdad-revie-3/

Annotated Little Brother

Chapter 2


http://w1n5t0n.com/chapter-2/#9

Sunday, October 18, 2009

NCTE Charactereization Lessons

http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=175

Character Trait Worksheet
http://www.readwritethink.org/lesson_images/lesson175/RWT186-2.pdf

Instructables for Little Brother

How to do some of the things Marcus does.

http://www.instructables.com/member/w1n5t0n/