Ken Wolfe
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St. Louis, Missouri, United States
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30 years' experience teaching English/Comm. Arts in the middle school, high school and collegiate level. Courses range from standard Middle School English courses to exploratory courses ("Great Productions" video production, "Books with Spines" advanced literature study for Middle School scholars, etc.) to High School varieties (Science Fiction, Satire, Horror, English Lit., Western Lit., etc.). College courses include Storytelling, Satire, Media Literacy and Speculative Fiction.
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The Jabberwocky Toolkit
The activities in this collection compose a number of different approaches to a common goal: the memorization of Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky". Differing from the traditional classroom avenue toward rote memorization and inculcation, this short program of exercises immerses the scholar in the text and flow of the poem. Soon the scholar will become increasingly familiar with the structure and, with some concentration, she/he will fin the she/he knows it completely. The exercises vary in scholast
5th - 8th
English Language Arts, Other (ELA), Poetry
57 Greek and Latin Roots!
A basic chart of 57 common Greek and Latin Roots with definitions and example words. Nothing fancy, but very useful in training scholars in discerning words for themselves, and from context.
Presented in Word format, in case you'd like to change or alter something.
4th - 12th
English Language Arts, Other (ELA), Vocabulary
"Free Reading" Program
A low-maintenance program that allow scholars to thrive with choice and freedom in their reading; fosters independence, accountability and identity in scholars.
After a certain age, the best thing for a scholar who needs to raise her/his reading level and comprehension is to read. Reading instruction and strategies lay on the floor at home, useless, if the scholar is not actively reading something. With reluctant readers, especially, it's not even as important what they read as long as they
5th - 8th
English Language Arts, Reading, Reading Strategies
The Chimp Alarm! Your Scholars' Musical Hallway Time Management Tool
The Chimp Alarm Technique –
One bane of teachers and administrators everywhere is the tardy scholar, the ambling scholar, the “get there when I get there” scholar still languishing in the hallway after the proper time has passed. It’s not a good thing for teachers to start their classes with annoyance, having yelled, “Let’s go! Don’t be late!” over and over or for scholars to feel badgered and resentful. Especially in a building with no interim bells or signals, the nebulous time frame can be
5th - 8th
30 Prefixes!
A basic chart of 30 common prefixes with definitions and example words. Nothing fancy, but very useful in training scholars in discerning words for themselves, and from context.
Presented in Word format, in case you'd like to change or alter something.
5th - 8th
English Language Arts, Other (ELA), Vocabulary
24 Suffixes!
A basic chart of 24 common suffixes with definitions and example words. Nothing fancy, but very useful in training scholars in discerning words for themselves, and from context.
Presented in Word format, in case you'd like to change or alter something.
5th - 8th
English Language Arts, Vocabulary
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About the store
Experience
30 years' experience teaching English/Comm. Arts in the middle school, high school and collegiate level. Courses range from standard Middle School English courses to exploratory courses ("Great Productions" video production, "Books with Spines" advanced literature study for Middle School scholars, etc.) to High School varieties (Science Fiction, Satire, Horror, English Lit., Western Lit., etc.). College courses include Storytelling, Satire, Media Literacy and Speculative Fiction.
Teaching style
Neo-Classical, fortified and enriched with humor, ritual, storytelling, lots of strange accents, year-long spiraling content, long-term projects and random, edifiying scholar activities.
Awards & shining teacher moments
Best of Brentwood, 2005
My own education history
Baylor University, B.S.Ed., 1991
Webster University, M.A.T. (Storytelling and Creative Drama), 2001
Additional biographical information
By day, Ken Wolfe has spent twenty-eight years teaching St. Louisan middle and high school scholars mastery in the ways of English. By night, it's been narrative lies and tall tales to anyone who will listen and pay him. He's a champion of the middle school underdog, four-time winner of the Missouri State Liars Contest, a leading professor of storytelling at the University of Missouri, St. Louis, a published poet, a regular in the hip St. Louis storytelling scene, a unicycling coach, and a nascent author of darkly droll adolescent spy fiction. (Wun, a story of the crumbling ruins of a Bond-esque villain's lair in the jungles of Brazil and the boy who, on a mission trip to the same region, stumbles upon it to find the evil scheme it houses still active and malevolent.)
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