ustaris educon 2011 final

HOW DO YOU READ THESE IMAGES?

The role of visual texts in teaching divergent thinking and analysis in an inclusive ninth-grade English classroom

Lorraine A. Ustaris, The Arts Academy at Benjamin Rush

Meet the Class

Population: 27 amazing kids

Who are reduced to these labels on paper…

Special Learning DisabilityAutism Spectrum DisorderESL“Regular” EdGifted

We don’t need no

education!Help!!!

No more bricks in The Wall : Pink Floyd + Paradigm Shifts

on the First Day of High School

Are literary terms too legit for us to quit?Do metaphors matter modernly?

Are symbols significant?

Is rhetoric really

important?

What is school compared to in Pink Floyd’s video?

What does it mean to be

‘just another brick

in the wall’?

What is Pink Floyd’s

message?

. . . What happens when the next stop on the road to changing paradigms is the

kingdom of paradigms?

Reading the World through

Disney’s Fantasia :

Engaging in Literary/Cultural Analysis in an

Inclusive English

Classroom

An Analysis of “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice”

http://bigmamastar.edu.glogster.com/sorcerors-apprentice-1925/