Madeline's+Contributions

I plan on making my wikipage for this class an everchanging one because there always seems to be new information to share. My information thus far relates to assignments that I have completed for HU4140.

Common Sense Media While working on my Pedagogical Rationale for the novel //Speak//, I came across a valuable website called Common Sense Media ([|www.commonsensemedia.org]). This website has balanced reviews on books, movies, websites, and more. This site would be a great tool when evaluating whether to use a certain resource in class. When looking at a book review, Common Sense Media includes a suggested age range for the material, the positive elements and negative elements of the book, what parents should know, and what families can talk about. This would be a great site to send parents to when a challenged book is brought into the classroom. By giving parents a place to get a balanced view of the book, the parents will be able to see the context of the whole book and the parts that may be controversial. This would be a good place to start a conversation with parents about the value of teaching those issues in class. I highly recommend this site to anyone in the teaching profession.

ReadWriteThink ReadWriteThink ([|www.readwritethink.org]) is another great resource for teachers. It is full of lesson plans, student interactives, calendar activities, and print-outs, as well as professional development resources. I have used this site for ideas of lesson plans, as well as to look for handouts to use in my lessons. The resources are always growing with many contributions, so if there is ever a question to where to start with a unit or lesson, ReadWriteThink is the place to look.

The next segment of my page that I plan on adding over break is what I have created and found for resources in HU4140. Stay tuned. :)