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Inviting
Jane to the 21st Century
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resources are connected to 21st Century Learning!
"How
could these novels ever seem remote? ... The gaiety is unextinguished
to today, the irony has kept its bite, the reasoning is
still sweet, the sparkle undiminished ... As comedies they
are irresistible and as nearly flawless as any fiction could
be."
Eudora
Welty
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idea: Jane’s
Blog!
Ask
your students to construct a blog as if they were one of
the characters in a Jane Austen novel. Students should make
an entry any time their character appears in the story.
They may recall a conversation and what their character
really wanted to say, they may have observed a place or
a situation where they could not comment aloud, but the
blog is the perfect place to reflect, vent, and create solutions.
Blogging
is a great way to encourage students to respond to their
reading. Edublogs offers teachers and students free blog
space and appropriate security. Students will need an
e-mail address in order to create an EduBlogs account.
Free, disposable e-mail accounts are available at Mailinator.
Students can create an account there, use the address
long enough to establish the blog and password, and then
abandon it. The blog tool Word Press is also easy to use,
and students will pick it up quickly.
Read
more from Media,
Technology and Jane Austen: Happy Endings
Also
try http://www.21classes.com/
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| Language
Arts: Writing (Grades 9-12) |
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Strand 2: Writing Elements – ALL |
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Strand 3: Writing Applications |
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Concept 1: Expressive - Expressive writing
includes personal narratives, stories, poetry,
songs, and dramatic pieces. Writing may
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Concept 4: Persuasive - Persuasive writing
is used for the purpose of influencing the
reader. The author presents an issue and
expresses an opinion in order to convince
an audience to agree with the opinion or
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Concept 5: Literary Response - Literary
response is the writer’s reaction
to a literary selection. The response includes
the writer’s interpretation, analysis,
opinion, and/or feelings about the piece
of literature. (PO – all) |
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Can
you match the opening lines to the title of the book?
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Jane
in the Digital Age
Read
the following New York Times article, Austen
on YouTube, to see how students and others are adapting
existing content to make YouTube videos about their favorite
subjects or area of interest. Under appropriate teacher
supervision how could this tool be used in the classroom
to create educationally relevant products to engage students
and allow them to demonstrate their understanding of content?
One
obstacle to using such Web 2.0 tools as YouTube
and Google
Video is the problem of district servers blocking content
from these types of resources. Several possible tools for
teacher use include:
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http://youtubedownload.altervista.org/
allows you to download YouTube videos to your desktop.
• Another site that works for both Macs and PCs is:
http://vixy.net
STANDARDS LINK
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Proficiency Level |
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• STANDARD
4: TECHNOLOGY COMMUNICATIONS TOOLS |
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4T-P1 Routinely and efficiently use online
information resources to meet needs for
collaboration and communications
See: Language Arts (W-P2-6) and Workplace
Skills (1WP-P5) |
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PO 1. Using criteria for research in Standard
5, create an end product (e.g., multimedia
presentation, publication, Web page) to
disseminate the information |
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