travis j. bristol, phd (candidate) clinical teacher educator boston plan for excellence enabling...
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TRAVIS J. BRISTOL, PHD (CANDIDATE)
CLINICAL TEACHER EDUCATORBOSTON PLAN FOR EXCELLENCE
Enabling Shakespeare
Coalition of Schools Educating Boys of Color
Workshop Outline
Boston Teacher Residency (BTR) programPre-Service E/la Teachers’ Dilemma of
Practice Build on Tatum’s Enabling TextExperience the “Enabling” of Shakespeare
All Texts can be Enabled
Boston Teacher Residency Program
Clinical Teacher Educator
BTR Residents’ Dilemma of Practice
“How do I make European Literature relevant?”
Presentation’s Focus
Enabling Shakespeare
Alfred Tatum (2008) defines an enabling text as one that goes beyond a cognitive focus—such as skill and strategy development—to introduce an academic, cultural, emotional, and social component that moves students closer to examining issues they find relevant to their lives.
Turn & Talk
How are you understanding
Tatum’s definition of an
“Enabling Text?”
Tatum’s Enabling Texts
Tatum suggests several high school texts such as The Pact: Three Young Men Make a Promise and Fulfill a Dream and Rite of Passage, all texts with Black male protagonists, as “enabling.”
Enabling Texts
Enabling Texts: Extension
All Texts Can Be “Enabling!”
Master Class Model: CTE and Resident
Enabling Text: Plot Summary
Unit’s Essential Question
Students will be able to explain/discuss how Shakespeare uses ideas of power to discuss characters’ ability to control their own fate.
Pre-reading Questions
1) Why do you think the murderers’ lines vary when compared to Macbeth?
2) How do the murderers address Macbeth?whole-group share out about those differences
3) How does Macbeth address the murderers?
During Reading Questions
During Reading questions 1) In line 3.1.91, the murders say they are men. To what is Macbeth comparing the murders? In what way is he comparing the two things?(How is he comparing the Murderers and Dogs)
2) Why does Macbeth use the words “housekeeper” and “hunter” when talking to the murders?
3) What is the purpose of this comparison?
Enabling Shakespeare
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPJOPQpciqw
Four Year-Old Boy & Guns
Turn & Talk
Enabling Shakespeare
Unedited Version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mu_LK_iE
FE8
Turn and Talk
Non-fiction Texts
Whole Group Discussion
How were we “enabling” Shakespeare in this lesson?
Day 3: Content Objective
Students will explore how Shakespeare might respond to the question – is one’s fate predetermined by society?
Enabling Shakespeare
Whole Group Discussion
How were we “enabling” Shakespeare in this lesson?
Student Reflections
Turn & Talk
What do you hear students saying?
Student Reflections
Turn & Talk
What do you hear students saying?
Student Reflections
How to Enable a Text?
All Texts can be Enabled!
Enabling Shakespeare
“Another aspect of planning that I learned a lot about through both this unit and the “Master Class” experience is how to create lessons in which I treat all students as sense makers and create high cognitive demand tasks. I learned that sometimes just a small tweak in a lesson plan can make a task much more cognitively demanding and effective.”
• -Kylie Smith , BTR Resident C10