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Spoken Language 10/11

By Kasha Duff

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Treasurer of the Surrey English Teachers’ Association

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What is Spoken language?● spoken word/slam poetry● poetry recitation● oral storytelling● readers’ theatre● radio/podcasts/video ● speech writing/presenting● proposals● interviewing● event facilitation● debating

OUtline - 20 weeks of SL 10/Lit Studies 10● Intro Activities - 1 week● Poetry Recitation - 3 weeks (Poetry in

Voice competition)● Literature Circles - 5 weeks● Speech Inquiry and Writing/Presenting - 4

weeks● Slam Poetry - 3 weeks (final assessment)● Conversations - 4 weeks (once a week)

Assessment tasks - Spoken Language 10Poetry in Voice - Poetry Recitation Competition, Learning Journal

Literature Circles - Paragraphs, Synthesis Essay, Reading Journal, Creative Project and Discussion Groups

Speech Unit - Inquiry Project, Learning Journal, Final Speech

Slam Poetry - Learning Journal, Final Poem

Conversations - Reflections, Midterm and Final Conversation

Final Conference - Completed with Student

Texts USed● Poems off the Poetry in Voice page

● Lit Novels - The Book Thief, Salt to the Sea, Ender’s

Game, The Hate U Give, Curious Incident…, Son of the Mob

● Speech Inquiry - Kids found fabulous speeches on-line

● Slam Poems - Film: Louder Than Bomb, Poets: Shane

Koyczan, Lemn Sissay, Anis Mojgani, Sarah Kay, Phil Kaye,

Andrea Gibson, etc.

Walking WednesdaysWeekly Paired Conversations

● Celeste Headlee’s Tedtalk

● Conversation Starters Website

● Randomly App

● Eventually students developed

topics

● Reflect

● In SL 11, debate on way there,

converse on way back and then

debrief arguments

Examples of Assessment

Talk time!Discuss with your neighbour(s) one new idea you could do with

your classes that you aren’t already doing or something you

would try if you got to teach a Spoken Language class next

year.

OUtline - Spoken Language 11● Intro Activities - 1 week● Aboriginal Oral Traditions - 2 weeks● Writers Festival - 1 week● Novel Study - The Marrow Thieves - 8 weeks● Persuasion - Debate, Slam Poetry and Public

Speaking - 4 weeks (final assessment)● Conversations/Debates - 4 weeks (once a

week)

Assessment tasks - Spoken Language 11● Oral Traditions - Learning Journal● Writers Fest - Inquiry and Learning Journal● Novel Study - Paragraphs, Novel Package (included work on

characters, theme, setting and vocabulary), Reading Journals with Scene Summaries, Learning Journals, Coming-To Narrative Essay and Verbal Visual Essay

● Final Persuasive Speaking Activity - Choice of Slam Poem, Speech or Debate

● Walking Wednesdays - Midterm and Final Conversation and Debate

● Final Conference - Completed with Student

Texts used● The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline

● I Am Not a Number by Jenny Kay Dupuis and Kathy Kacer

● Not My Girl by Christy Jordan-Fenton and Margaret Pokiak-

Fenton

● When We Were Alone by David A. Robertson and Julie Flett

● Embers by Richard Wagamese

● English First Peoples Grade 10-12 Teacher Resource Guide

by First Nations Education Steering Committee (FNESC)

Planning vs ApplicationWho took the course - 10’s and 11’s

Other people’s experiences with these courses?

Thank yoU!Thanks so much for being here. :)