1. Oh Captain! My Captain ! 2014 Denise Riley Educational Consultant etceducation@sbcglobal.net405-613-4079

2. http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=Fnh9q_cQcUE http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=Fnh9q_cQcUE  The big question to consider is how will the standards change your teaching?  How do the standards alter the definition of what it means to be an effective teacher in the 21 st century ?

3. FIVE THINGS  Lead High-Level Text-Based Discussions  Focus On Process Not Just Content  Create Assignment for Real Audiences and for Real Purposes  Teach Argument, Not Persuasion  Increase Text Complexity

4. Reading for Informational Text English Language Arts Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text and analyze how the author distinguishes his or her position from that of others. History/Social Studies Identify aspects of a text that reveal an author’s point of view or purpose (e.g., loaded language, inclusion or avoidance of particular facts). Science and Technology Subjects Analyze the author’s purpose in providing an explanation, describing a procedure, or discussing an experiment in a text.

5. Structured Conversation with Individual Accountability  Numbered Heads Together  Think, Write, Pair, Share

7. O Captain My Captain by Walt Whitman O Captain my Captain! our fearful trip is done, The ship has weathered every rack, the prize we sought is won, The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting, While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring; But O heart! heart! heart! O the bleeding drops of red, Where on the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead. O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells; Rise up--for you theflag is flung for you the bugle trills, For you bouquets and ribboned wreaths for you the shores a-crowding, For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning; Here Captain! dear father! This arm beneath your head! It is some dream that on the deck, You've fallen cold and dead. My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still; My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will; The ship is anchored safe and sound, its voyage closed and done; From fearful trip the victor ship comes in with object won; Exult O shores, and ring O bells! But I, with mournful tread, Walk the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBL8wT6Pm9g

8.  Students analyze Walt Whitman’s “Oh Captain! My Captain! to uncover the poems analogies and allusions. They analyze the impact of specific word choices by Whitman, such as rack and grim, and determine how they contribute to the overall meaning and tone of the poem.

9. Using Poetry to Teach the Past  What can we learn from extended metaphors in poetry?  Extended metaphors compare two people, places or things at the same length and in several ways without using like or as. We learn more about a subject and understanding it better when it is compared to something else. Lincoln to captain of ship

10. “ Discussion is an important tool of learning. It engages students, broadens their perspectives, and promotes meaning-making, decision- making, and higher-level thinking. Discussion is difficult, even for adults. We converse, we share, we argue, we report, and we think we have discussed. But true discussion is purposeful interchange of ideas through which meaning has the possibility of being revised and extended.” --from Classroom Discussion by Dixie Spiegel (2005)

11. Captain  The whole theme of the movie was "carpe diem" or seize the day and that pretty much fits the theme of that poem well. poem

12. Music  How do we get students to engage higher level thinking using poetry? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v= esuQIMr8nNw

14. What Is Taught Matters! Students Can Rise to the Level of the Curriculum and the Assignments Given Them.