Constant Reader Learning Materials
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"Constant Reader Learning Materials" is really a teacher and professor hiding in the background avoiding the policies that says he can't write curriculum for others or sell his work. Professor Constant Reader earned a position as an expert in Common Core from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He has created curriculum for himself and his classroom, for other schools and educators, for publication, college courses, and home school.
His publishing credits include more than 40 online courses for a major university, 55 online textbooks, a guide to writing, a novel, four travel guides, and numerous chapters, stories, poems, and essays.
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Lesson Plan: This I Believe
"This I Believe" is a long-running program that began with Edward R. Murrow. This lesson plan, by exploring student's own beliefs, assists students in better understanding themselves in this complex and challenging world. The plan includes
* 7 required readings
* audio links
* teacher resources
* vocabulary, quiz, glossary, and key
* writing prompt
* rubric
* images
and more. See the preview table of contents for more details.
This plan should take two weeks to complete.
6th - 12th
Informational Text, Reading, Writing-Expository
CCSS
RI.6.2
, RI.6.3
, RI.6.4
+47
Lesson Plan: The Six Steps of Search for Self
This lesson is a multi-day curriculum that gives students tools to help them think about who they have already become as people and who they want to be. Some of the steps are ones students have made and are making, while others are in their future, and at least one is a level few of us ever achieve but many attempt. This is the SECOND lesson in a unit called “Search for Self”; however, it also can be a self-contained lesson. This lesson is appropriate for any time of the school year, but make
6th - 12th
Close Reading, Vocabulary, Writing
CCSS
RI.9-10.1
, RI.9-10.2
, RI.9-10.3
+15
Lesson Plan & PPT Package Explaining Hero vs Villain Protagonist vs Antagonist
This is a two-part package -- a Power Point presentation and a lesson plan. The PPT is available separately by the same name.
This 14-slide Power Point presentation presents hero, villain, protagonist, and antagonist. It explains the shift from using the terms "hero" and "villain" to the more contemporary "protagonist" and "antagonist." The presentation also uses Greek and early English root words to explain how the terms "protagonist" and "antagonist" evolved.
The fourteen slides include 1
6th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
Informational Text, Literature, Writing-Essays
CCSS
W.6.2
, W.6.2a
, W.6.2b
+104
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About the store
Experience
"Constant Reader Learning Materials" is really a teacher and professor hiding in the background avoiding the policies that says he can't write curriculum for others or sell his work. Professor Constant Reader earned a position as an expert in Common Core from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He has created curriculum for himself and his classroom, for other schools and educators, for publication, college courses, and home school.
His publishing credits include more than 40 online courses for a major university, 55 online textbooks, a guide to writing, a novel, four travel guides, and numerous chapters, stories, poems, and essays.
Teaching style
Professor Constant Reader loves to find the alternative meanings in texts. He challenges gifted students to rise to college level (or as close as they can get) thinking, reading, and writing. Meanwhile, he is very attuned to students facing various challenges who need extra help and guidance.
Awards & shining teacher moments
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation: Common Core Expert,
Teacher of the Year,
Teaching Assistant of the Year,
Professor of the Year,
Phi Beta Kappa,
Sigma Tau Delta,
Salutatorian,
Prize in Ethics
My own education history
B.A. University of Maryland (English),
M.A. Johns Hopkins University (Creative Writing and English Literature),
M.F.A. University of Miami (Creative Writing),
M.Ed. Notre Dame of Maryland (Education),
M.A. (ongoing) Harvard University (Special Status Student)
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