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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The Modern Freytag Pyramid and Other Plot Diagrams
This 48-slide Power Point Presentation briefly reviews the Classic Freytag Pyramid that includes introduction / exposition, inciting incident, rising action, climax, falling action, revelation, resolution / conclusion. However, since the Victorian period when Freytag developed the pyramid plots have changed in dramatic ways. The presentation explains three more recent diagrams including the Modern Freytag Pyramid, the Post Modern Plot Diagram, and the Post Post Modern Plot Diagram. The present
6th - 12th, Adult Education, Higher Education
Close Reading, Informational Text, Literature
CCSS
SL.6.1a
, SL.6.1b
, SL.6.1c
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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.
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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