Spring Online

Internet Teaching 20's and 30's

EDTE 492M/592M--Three Quarter Hours

Kathie Chini and Diane Burkhart
Shannon Hall
Ohio University--Eastern Campus
(740)699-2500
chini@ohio.edu & burkhart@ohio.edu

Please refer to the complete final course syllabus available on the course Website once the course begins.

Course
Description

This is a 3-hour graduate workshop that will incorporate children’s literature, picture books, historical fiction, biographies, and non-fiction and the Internet as resources to teach the 20’s and 30’s.  We are teaching the 20’s and 30’s through the perspectives of all main characters in the required books.  The materials were selected to provide background information to teachers at all levels from K-8.  The activities will be divided into 8 sections.  Questions will be completed on line and sent by email for evaluation.  Participants must be online a minimum of 20 hours.

Prerequisites

None

Methods of Course Instruction

All course content is presented on the World Wide Web; e-mail is used for submission of assignments, as well as for the instructor's evaluation and comments.

Course Objectives

The teacher will be able to

  1. Identify and critique children’s literature books

  2. Compare and contrast leading characters

  3. Link Internet sites to historical information exhibited in the books

  4. Evaluate Internet sites that correlate to the novels

  5. Explain the research on the importance of using historical fiction in the classroom

General Course Requirements

  1. Read Novels        

  2. Internet Activities  

  3. Response Journal 

  4. Reflective Paper

Materials

Required

Text(s)

  1. Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt – A Life of Discovering                                                                                by Russell Freedom

  2. Amelia & Eleanor Go For A Ride: Based On A True Story                                                             by Pam Munoz Ryan

  3. The Lost Star                                                                     by Patricia Lauber

  4. Hero:  The True Story of Charles A. Lindberg                                                                                         by Barry Denenberg

  5. Out Of The Dust                                                                          by Karen Hesse

  6. The Grapes of Wrath                                           by John Steinbeck

  7. Angels In The Dust                                                                        by Margot Theis Ravan

  8. Children Of The Dust Bowl                                  by Jerry Stanley

  9. Mimmy & Sophie                                                                            by Mirian Cohen

  10. Bud, Not Buddy                                                    by Christopher Paul Curtis

  11. A Green Horn Blowing                                                                  by David Francis Buchman

  12. Brother, Can You Spare A Dime?                                                                              by Milton Meltzer

  13. The Babe & I                                                                          by David Adler

  14. Al Capone and The Roaring Twenties                by David King

  15. Franklin Delano Roosevelt                                            by Russell Freedom

  16. Lou Gehrig – The Luckiest Man                                         by David Adler



Note: The books for the course are in stock at College Bookstore, (740) 594-3505. Click here for online ordering.

Exams
Requirements

No exams

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