Category: English Language Arts
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Texas Education Alumni Conference
I am happy to be presenting again this year at the UT College of Education Alumni Conference. In 2018 I was chosen as a recipient for the Alumni Teacher Research Grant Award, and tomorrow morning I will be presenting about my work centered upon justice oriented citizenship. In the afternoon, I will be joining Saba…
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Ms. Green at NCTE 2018
I am thrilled to be presenting three different times at NCTE (National Council for Teachers of English) in Houston this weekend. You can find me… Saturday, November 17th Text Selection and Reading: Integrated Approaches to Developing Student Voice, 8:00am-9:15am, 350 D I’ll be presenting alongside four other educators to talk about the work my fifth…
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Hidden Figures
Last month, we kicked off Women’s History Month by presenting our Hidden Figures writing projects to our friends, families, and our Little Longhorn community. The kids did an amazing job uncovering the hidden histories of powerful women who have had an impact on our country and our communities. Here are some highlights! Way…
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Who Run The World?
Women, and specifically women of color, have faced their fair share of challenges in America. Women have made incredible contributions to our country, and yet, the contributions of many of these women still go unnoticed. Recently, one of these stories has been unearthed. Let’s watch this trailer together: In the trailer for Hidden Figures, the…
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Ms. Green at NCSS!
I have been out of school Thursday and Friday, and am presenting at the NCSS conference in Washington DC. Yes, that’s right, our Little Longhorns get to do the coolest projects, and teachers from around the country want to hear about what we’re up to! This post is mainly for teachers looking for direction and…
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The 2016 Civil Rights Movement Timeline Exhibition
I am just blown away by the work our fifth graders did for their civil rights timeline presentations! We have spent the past six weeks researching both the African American civil rights movement and the Chicano movement, all of which led up to this amazing timeline exhibition. We started out by talking about the dominant narrative…
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Challenging the Dominant Narrative
This year in Ms. Green’s class, we’ve started a conversation that will last the whole year. We’re talking about what it means to challenge the dominant narrative. The dominant narrative is the story that’s usually told, and that most people are comfortable hearing. In a US history context, this dominant narrative says that rich white…
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Newsela & The Primary Election
As many of our readers know, we had the privilege of being filmed by our very own cameraman, the one and only Joe Salinas, during our exploration of the primary election via Newsela Vote. (If you’re interested in exactly what we did, here’s the blog post we used for our research.) Newsela is one of…
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Why Kwame Alexander Belongs in Every Classroom
This past week, UT Elementary 5th grade had the privilege of hearing Kwame Alexander, Newberry and Coretta Scott-King Award winning author of The Crossover, speak at O Henry Middle School. On Monday afternoon, a parent informed me that Kwame would be speaking at O Henry, and by 2pm Tuesday, I had sent enough emails and made…
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Is the United States Guilty of Genocide?
Did the American government commit genocide against the Native American people? That’s the hot topic we will be discussing today in Ms. Green’s class. We learned about genocide earlier this year, remember? Genocide is the tip-top of the Pyramid of Hate. (This poster is still hanging on our wall, but here’s a reminder for…
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