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Project Folio

Title

Transitional ESL Literary Essay Project

Collaborators

Margaret Early
Sondra Marshall

Schools

Lord Byng Secondary

Languages

Grades

8-12

Last Modified

May 1, 2007

Description

In this Transitional English class, multimodal pedagogical activities were designed to support students to create rich complex interpretations of literary works in English and to represent their understandings in visual mode, and in linguistic mode, in the form of an assessed literary essay.

Demonstrations

Transitional ESL Literary Essay Project

This project was designed for two Transitional level ESL classes composed of students in grades 8 through 12.  It was implemented at the end of Term 1 (November 2006) as a comprehensive assignment for students to work in small groups, explore a short story and demonstrate their understanding of the short story genre.Profile of School...
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Teacher Resources

Samples of materials used to teach the Unit
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Student Mandalas

Examples of the Students' Visual Representations of their work.
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Students' Texts: To Build a Fire

Examples of Students' Work
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Students' Texts: War

Examples of Students' Work
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Students' Texts: Water of Life

Examples of Students' Work
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