Readings & Assignments Sp12

Course Schedule: Readings and Assignments


January 25/ Class 1: Welcome Back!
Meet in your assigned rooms

February 1/Class 2: Self Portraits & What do we know about Brooklyn?
Meet in your assigned rooms

Assignment(s) Due:

• Wiki Discussion 1
• Bring 3 to 5 images of winter (printed/cut out)
• Bring 3 to 5 images of Brooklyn (printer/cut out)

Readings Due:

• Read from the Blueprint for Visual Arts (Art ed Standards) __http://schools.nyc.gov/offices/teachlearn/arts/blueprint.html__
  • In Blueprint for Visual Arts read pages 10 -28 & 45-52
• Read NY State Tech Ed. Standards __http://www.p12.nysed.gov/ciai/mst/pub/mststa1_2.pd__f
• __New York State P-12 Common Core Learning Standards for English Language Arts & Literacy__
• __English Language Arts and Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects - Appendix A - Research Supporting Key Elements of the Standards; Glossary of Key Terms__

February 8/Class 3: Tweet Books & the Art of Romare Bearden
Meet in your assigned rooms

Assignment(s) Due:

• Wiki Discussion
• Have your TWO historical/cultural Brooklyn events posted on the timeline

Readings Due:

• Readings on Creativity completed
• Revisit Seefeldt (Chapter 3)
• Find and read a resource on Romare Bearden

February 15/Class 4: Exploring Brooklyn Past & Present (Trip to Bklyn. Pub. Lib)
Meet at the Brooklyn Public Library 10 Grand Army Plaza, New York, NY 11225
(718) 230-2100

Assignment(s) Due:

• Wiki Discussion
• Bring photo ID and a bill with your NYS resident address if you want to get a BPL card to check out books

Readings Due:

• Reading on mind maps (tba)
• Daniels, H. 2002. "Expository Text in Literature Circles." Voices from the Middle, 9, 4
• Visit Brooklyn Public Library Web site (www.brooklynpubliclibrary.org)

February 19th (Sunday) /Class 5: Class Field Trip Studio Museum of Harlem (DOE Mid-winter Break)
Meeting location: Studio Museum of Harlem 144 West 125th Street New York, NY 10027-4498
(212) 864-4500

Note: Depending on the groups response:

• The trip to the Studio Museum, be on a Sunday afternoon. We will discuss this further in class.

Assignments Due:

• Wiki Discussion

Readings Due:

• Readings on your final project topic (group decision)
• Identify and review the community board website related to your topic

February 29/Class 6: Brooklyn through Romare Bearden’s Eyes/Illustrating Children’s Lit. Speakers

Assignments Due:

• Wiki Discussion

Readings Due:

• Report on the state of the arts in U.S. public school (will be posted on wiki)
• Identify and read materials on at least one of the illustrators on tonight’s panel

March 7/Class 7: Digital Story Telling/Technology in the Classroom
Meet together, location TBA

Assignments Due:

• Literature Circle Discussion #1

Readings Due:

• Hathorn, P. 2005. “Using Digital Storytelling as a Literacy Tool for the Inner City Middle School Youth.” The Charter Schools Resource Journal, Vol. 1 No. 1 Winter 2005 - __http://www.ehhs.cmich.edu/~tcsrj/phathorn.pdf__
• Serriere, S.C. (2010). “Carpet Time Democracy; Digital Photography and Social Consciousness in the Earyl Childhood Classroom.” In The Social Studies. 101, p. 60 – 68.
• Visit Center for Digital Storytelling (CDS), (__http://www.storycenter.org/__)

March 14/No Class: NYU Spring Break


March 21/Class 8: Looking at Brooklyn History
Meet together, location TBA

Assignment(s) Due:

• Wiki Discussion
• Midterm Research Paper

Readings Due:

• Podair, J. 2001. The Ocean Hill-Brownsville Crisis: New York’s Antigone
  
  

March 28/Class 9: Integrating Spoken Word/Poetry
Meet together, location TBA

Assignment(s) Due:

• Wiki Discussion
• Literature Circle Discussion #2

Readings Due:

• almustafa, k. 2008. Growing Up Hip Hop
• Article on poy & spoken word in the classroom (TBA)

April 4/Class 10: Ocean-Hill Brownsville Case (Guest Speaker)
Meet together, location TBA

Assignment(s) Due:

• Wiki Discussion

Readings Due:

April 11/Class 11: Theater of the Oppressed, part 1
Meet together, location TBA

Assignment(s) Due:

• Wiki Discussion
• Readings on Ocean Hill Brownsville (TBA)
• Identify and read articles that touch upon contemporary issues that are part of the legacy of Ocean Hill Brownsville

Readings Due:

• Cockrell, Karen et al., Theater of the Oppressed as a Self-Study Process: Understanding Ourselves as Actors in Teacher Education Classrooms
• Obituary, Augusto Boal, creator of Theater of the oppressed http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/09/theater/09boal.html?pagewanted=all

April 18/ Class 12: Theater of the Oppressed, part 2 (DOE Spring Break 4/6 – 4/13)
Meet together, location TBA

• Flynn, R. Curriculum-based Readers Theater: Setting the stage

April 25/Class 13: Final Project Planning & Possible Guest Performance Artist with Occupy Wall Street
Meeting together, location TBA

Assignments Due

• Digital Stories

May 2/Class 14: Senior Final Project Curriculum Fair
Meet together, location TBA

Assignment(s) Due:

• Copy of curriculum project, posted on wiki
• Materials for Curriculum Fair

May 9/Class 15: Digital Story Presentations and Senior Celebration
Meet together, location TBA


May 17: NYU COMMENCEMENT (YAY!!)