Teachable Moment: Danny Boy, The Soul of Melancholy, The Soul Of Ireland

 

This song is traditionally sung by a male and is from the perspective of father to son.

Danny Boy - Finbar Wright 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlzWRQ5e4qg

 Oh Danny boy, the pipes, 
the pipes are calling.
From glen to glen, 
and down the mountain side.

The summer's gone, 
and all the flowers are falling.
'Tis you, 'tis you 
must go and I must bide.

But come ye back 
when summer's in the meadow,
Or when the valley's hushed 
and white with snow.

And I'll be here
in sunshine or in shadow.
Oh Danny boy, oh Danny boy,
I love you so.

But if you come, 
and all the flowers are falling.
And I am dead, 
as dead I might well be.

You'll come and find 
the place where I am lying.
And kneel and say 
an "Ave" there for me.

And I will hear, 
though soft your tread above me.
And all my grave 
will warmer sweeter be.

And you will bend 
and tell me that you love me.
And I shall sleep
in peace until you come to me. 

But if I live,
and should you die for Ireland,
Let not your dying thoughts 
be just of me.

But say a prayer to God 
for our dearest Ireland.
I know she'll hear
and help to set her free.

And I will take your pike 
and place my dearest,
And strike a blow, 
though weak the blow may be.

T'will help the cause 
to which your heart was nearest 
Oh Danny Boy, Oh, Danny boy 
I love you so.

Educational Links 3/10/19

Civic Discussion Videos

https://www.teachingchannel.org/video/importance-high-quality-discussions

The Importance Of Knowledge In Progressive Education

https://wegrowteachers.com/the-importance-of-knowledge-in-progressive-education/?fbclid=IwAR0XSoVmA58Xvq-_e0yFowbVn42TEjmVCQOu9tELDURWpK3hSaKyjyOiiqs

We Have a National Reading Crisis

https://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2019/03/07/we-have-a-national-reading-crisis.html?cmp=SOC-EDIT-FB&fbclid=IwAR1ktZwEUMhM709jJWAgypltIsb9Kgd4pechnKAaF-ZeD7mJ2nvvhFwNuaU

I Marie Kondo-ed a Cluttered Classroom, and Here’s What Happened

https://www.weareteachers.com/marie-kondo-classroom/?linkId=100000005330129&fbclid=IwAR19HkaSo8-IKaK9SdEsd2qYOc5tzmcXGKICazcnUUvg6Jr90Br7HBZNZpQ

SMART NEW WAYS TO USE TECHNOLOGY IN SCIENCE CLASS

http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2019/03/09/my-new-bam-radio-show-is-on-smart-new-ways-to-use-technology-in-science-class/?fbclid=IwAR242_TxDzg3T4wkP1wG_QcuE72rUMlGSWwZeLXNFI3vIY-2ByVUjzi0Oho

7 Common Myths About Dyslexia

https://www.understood.org/en/learning-attention-issues/child-learning-disabilities/dyslexia/common-myths-about-dyslexia-reading-issues?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=understoodorg&fbclid=IwAR35oJkNQMCXme5Ve43YPuY8gK6wseqsw95TPk3duApCkleVWKJkaAJAX2I

Reframing How We Assess Student Writing

https://www.edutopia.org/article/reframing-how-we-assess-student-writing?utm_medium=socialflow&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR1T1HC7-dcZJXMLZ6Y96cY9oS2O2CQqKcDI8qMlWM96YhEtYfE4SR7cR_o

The work of assessing writing assignments can be shared with students, creating a critical learning opportunity for them.

Interactive Notebooking-Yes or No?

Classroom Management: Using Interactive Notebooks

http://www.teachhub.com/classroom-management-using-interactive-notebooks

7 Reasons to Use Interactive Notebooks

http://minds-in-bloom.com/7-reasons-to-use-interactive-notebooks/

LOGISTICS OF INTERACTIVE NOTEBOOKS

HTTP://THEMIDDLESCHOOLMOUTH.BLOGSPOT.COM/2012/04/LOGISTICS-OF-INTERACTIVE-NOTEBOOKS.HTML

These next two posts are one day apart, I'm guessing to be 'fair and balanced.'

10 Reasons Not to Use Interactive Notebooks

http://blog.penningtonpublishing.com/reading/10-reasons-not-to-use-interactive-notebooks/

10 Reasons to Use Interactive Notebooks

http://blog.penningtonpublishing.com/reading/10-reasons-to-use-interactive-notebooks/

TOP 5 REASONS THAT YOUR CLASS SHOULD BE USING INTERACTIVE NOTEBOOKS

https://www.keslerscience.com/top-5-reasons-that-your-class-should-be-using-interactive-notebooks/

Marzano, Pickering, and Pollack (2001) have contended, as have others, that to foster higher-order thinking, instructional activities must call on learners to restructure their prior knowledge and link it to new information. A crucial aspect of this brain-based activity is that students use their own “voices and perspectives” as they construct personal meaning for various mathematical processes, data, and events.

Festival of Irish Arts and Music Day 5

I also like the one that says, 'May you be in Heaven a half an hour before the devil knows you're dead.'

Cousins?

That's some pot of gold.

Here's some fun with Irish folklore, film, mirth, music and lively dance.

'Darby O'Gill and the Little People' includes a rundown of many well-known Irish superstitions from leprechauns to banshees, as well as a very young Sean Connery.

'The Secret of Roan Inish' is another film that also reveal lovely Irish landscapes as well as the legend of the silkies.

Numerous fantasy and faerie stories. These are old timey ones by 
W.B. Yeats. Read them first yourself before reading them aloud to children; some are rather creepy. 

Oh no, not a changling!

Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry
http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/yeats/fip/  

Here's more on the gift of gab (remember our Irish American presidents?

Tip O'Neill and Ronald Reagan

Reagan and Kennedy? They inherited the joke telling and the charm.)

Irish Quotations, Irish Blessings, Irish Proverbs and Irish Toasts

http://tacomaweekly.tripod.com/Irish-Quotations.html 

Here is live Irish music from a pub in County Clare--great fun even if you're just drinking O'Douhl's.

Traditional Irish Music - Brogan's Bar - Ennis, Ireland

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Z_TheGgFWI&list=HL1394432606

Irish dance has worldwide participants and audiences.

Irish dance

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_dance 

I don't know if this happens every day at the Dublin Airport, but how cool if it did. 

TAKE THE FLOOR Flashmob Dublin Airport 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ff_uLoEBEo 

Love the sentiment.

 

Educational Links 3/9/19

Modern Trends In Education: 50 Different Approaches To Learning

https://www.teachthought.com/pedagogy/modern-trends-education-50-different-approaches-learning/?fbclid=IwAR3aqb2ioFD8LbfkrLxl00AYaLK5BcJaopq6c8F0itm18coeCRUpn2kN--I

Download: Parent-Teacher Conference Worksheet

https://www.understood.org/en/school-learning/partnering-with-childs-school/working-with-childs-teacher/download-parent-teacher-conference-worksheet?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=understoodorg&fbclid=IwAR3GLTkw4g4gP4ANx-uuw7D7t_U26_jJiVHJEBwl8lgNpM_qEKeyF7IwVe

CLASSROOM INSTRUCTION RESOURCES OF THE WEEK

http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2019/03/08/classroom-instruction-resources-of-the-week-221/?fbclid=IwAR2_VMs_2H9pO3R888kl6UVL0f0InULhnNjmftPlB-Uou2hwXMHfgZu-DsU

Supporting Student Success in Online Learning

https://www.gettingsmart.com/2019/02/supporting-student-success-in-online-learning/?fbclid=IwAR0urr8DnLUaqaY6tGydXosCLcBPVxhRwfLOoAH8wGJ1ThF5exNvHfGLaWk

Growing Writing Skills with Digital Portfolios

https://www.middleweb.com/39846/growing-writing-skills-with-digital-portfolios/

Engaging Students From the Front of the Room

http://blog.mimio.com/engaging-students-from-the-front-of-the-room

How Learning Through Classroom Games Keeps Students Engaged

https://www.teachhub.com/how-learning-through-classroom-games-keeps-students-engaged

Keeping students engaged is a challenge teachers of all grades experience. The results of a 2016 Gallup survey of 1 million students aged 5th through 12th grades showed only about 50 percent of students are engaged in school. Even worse, one-fifth are actively disengaged, and 10 percent are both disengaged and discouraged.

Journaling As A Teaching Strategy

Journaling the Old-School Way

https://www.edutopia.org/article/journaling-old-school-way

Journal Writing

http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/strategy/strategy013.shtml

How to Implement Journal Writing Effectively in High School

https://classroom.synonym.com/implement-journal-writing-effectively-high-school-1507.html

Most famous journal ever? At least until you assign your students to write.

Journal Writing

http://42explore.com/journl.htm

Journal Writing Every Day: Teachers Say It Really Works!

http://www.educationworld.com/a_curr/curr144.shtml

Journal Teaching Strategies

http://www.teachhub.com/journal-teaching-strategies

The Importance of Student Journals and How to Respond Efficiently

https://www.edutopia.org/blog/student-journals-efficient-teacher-responses

The benefits of students integrating journal writing across the curriculum are amply documented. From a teacher's perspective, there are few activities that can trump journal writing for understanding and supporting the development of student thinking. Journaling turbo-charges curiosity. The legendary Toby Fulwiler, author of The Journal Book, writes, "Without an understanding of who we are, we are not likely to understand fully why we study biology rather than forestry, literature rather than philosophy. In the end, all knowledge is related; the journal helps clarify the relationship."

Refining Classroom Rules and Norms

Create Your Classroom Rules WITH Your Students for a Powerful Start to the Year

https://www.theartofed.com/2017/08/08/3-benefits-creating-classroom-expectations-students/

Ten Activities for Establishing Classroom Rules

http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/lesson/lesson274.shtml

The 5 Critical Categories of Rules

https://www.edutopia.org/blog/5-critical-categories-of-rules-richard-curwin

Classroom Management: Develop Clear Rules, Expectations

http://www.teachhub.com/classroom-management-developing-clear-rules-expectations

The Science Behind Classroom Norming

https://www.edutopia.org/blog/establishing-classroom-norms-todd-finley

How can I create, uphold, and share responsibility 
for classroom norms?

https://www.teachingchannel.org/class-culture/classroom-norms

Creating Classroom Rules Together

https://www.scholastic.com/teachers/articles/teaching-content/creating-classroom-rules-together/

5 Keys to Effective Classroom Management

https://www.amle.org/BrowsebyTopic/WhatsNew/WNDet/TabId/270/ArtMID/888/ArticleID/187/5-Keys-to-Effective-Classroom-Management.aspx

How to Create Class Rules

https://thecornerstoneforteachers.com/class-rules/

Classroom rules vs. procedures

Let’s clarify what purpose rules serve and how they differ from routines.  Rules set the tone for the classroom.  They provide broad guidelines about what should or should not be happening as a whole in the classroom. Procedures and routines are specific steps that kids are supposed to take in specific scenarios.

I especially like #4. Kill no vermin such as fleas, lice, ticks, etc., in the sight of others.

English Language Instruction: Info and Inspiration

Obviously, English Teachers are the heroes of education. Reading, writing, grammar, vocabulary, speaking and listening--and digital communication skills--and the crowning glory of all education: literature.

Teaching English and Language Arts

https://teach.com/become/what-can-i-teach/ela/

GUIDELINES FOR THE TEACHING OF ENGLISH IN THE SECONDARY SCHOOL

http://www.edocere.org/articles/guidelines_for_teaching_english_in_secondary_school.htm

The College Board Language Arts Framework

https://www.collegeboard.org/pdf/english-language-arts-framework-academic-advisory-committee.pdf

Nine Strategies for Reaching All Learners in English Language Arts

https://www.edutopia.org/blog/stw-expanded-learning-time-individualized-learning-hassan-mansaray

5 Effective Strategies for English Teachers

https://education.cu-portland.edu/blog/classroom-resources/teaching-strategies-for-english-teachers/

And poetry helps us know which road to take.

The Road Not Taken

Popular Poems to Teach

https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/anthology/popular-poems-teach

We have to have our memorable characters!

11 Great Book Lists for High School Students

https://www.weareteachers.com/book-lists-for-high-school-students/

Hamlet

Pride and Prejudice

Catcher in the Rye

Purpose for Writer's Workshop

The Ulitmate Writing Workshop Routines Guide
https://www.teachwriting.org/612th/2017/7/the-ultimate-writing-workshop-routines-guide

The teacher acts as a mentor author, modeling writing techniques and conferring with students as they move through the writing process. Direct writing instruction takes place in the form of a mini-lesson at the beginning of each workshop and is followed by a minimum of 45 minutes of active writing time.

Teaching Strategies to Implement a Writer’s Workshop

http://www.teachhub.com/teaching-strategies-implement-writers-workshop

https://www.teachwriting.org/612th/2017/7/the-ultimate-writing-workshop-routines-guide

Using the Writer's Workshop Approach in the Classroom

https://study.com/academy/lesson/using-the-writers-workshop-approach-in-the-classroom.html

Types of Writing Lessons (Writing Workshop Ideas)

https://teachingtoinspire.com/2016/12/writing-lessons-writing-workshop-ideas.html

https://www.teachwriting.org/612th/2017/7/the-ultimate-writing-workshop-routines-guide

The Writing Corner: How To Do Writing Workshop With Your Classes

https://teach.com/blog/how-to-do-writing-workshop-with-your-classes/

What Is Writing Workshop?

https://www.weareteachers.com/what-is-writing-workshop/

Creating a Writers' Workshop in a Secondary Classroom

https://www.edutopia.org/blog/creating-writers-workshop-secondary-classroom-shelby-scoffield

With the station rotation model, secondary students can focus on language arts skills such as analysis, structure, and academic writing while improving their overall writing quality.