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3.14.13 || ** Meet at Apollo Middle School ** Digital Literacies Projects in Classrooms from 3-4pm Refection and Plan for next DLP Session 4-4:30 Web 2.0 Presentations 4:30-5 (Natalia, Kay) DLP Writing Workshop with Partners from 5-6 pm || 3.21.13 || ** Critical Media Literacy: Inquiry **
 * 3.7.13 || ** READ-Spring Break **
 * TLUS- Capstone Writing Workshop at Apollo Middle School ** ||
 * Session 9
 * Session 10


 * Academic Language: ** critical inquiry, critical media literacy vs. media literacy,

@http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/critical-media-literacy-commercial-97.html
 * READ: **
 * Critical Media Literacy Overview []
 * (2010). Empowering students through critical media literacy: This means war. //The Clearinghouse, 83,// 164-167. DOI: 10.1080/00098650903505464
 * [[file:Rodesiler_Critical Media Literacy-War.pdf]]
 * Luke, A. (2011). Regrounding critical literacy: representation, facts and reality. In Hawkins, Margaret (Ed.) //Key Perspectives on Languages and Literacies.// Routledge, New York.
 * [[file:Luke_Critical Media Literacy.pdf]]
 * ** CHOOSE ONE: **
 * Gainer, J. S. (2010). Critical media literacy in middle school: exploring the politics of representation. //Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy,// 364-373. [[file:Gainer_Critical Media Literacy Middle School.pdf]]
 * Luke, A. & Dooley, K.(forthcoming). Critical literacy and second language learning. InE. Hinkel (Ed.), //Handbook of Research in Second Language Teaching and Learning// (Vol II). Routledge.
 * Explore and critique a Commercial Advertising Lesson **

Blog Reading Response to Readings due by Tuesday at 9pm Respond to a blog by Thursday at 3pm || ** READ-Capstone and Lesson Plan Workshop **
 * TASKS **
 * 3.28.13 || ** TLUS-Spring Break **
 * FIRST Draft of DLP Write Up Due ** ||

4.4.13 || ** READ: ** Lessig, L. (2008) //Remix// **Skim Chapters 1-3 and Read Chapter 4** **Available here** http://www.scribd.com/doc/47089238/Remix
 * Session 12

Blog Reading Response to Readings due by Tuesday at 9pm Respond to a blog by Thursday at 3pm DLP Plans || 4.11.13 || ** Media/Digital Literacy in the disciplines **
 * TASKS **
 * Session 13


 * READ: **
 * Shanahan, T. & Shanahan, C. (2008). Teaching Disciplinary Literacy to Adolescents: Rethinking Content-Area Literacy. // Harvard Educational Review // 78 (1), 40-59.
 * Schoenbach et al.: Ch. 8 The Knowledge Building Dimension
 * Alvermann, et al, Ch. 5 Adolescent literacies as demanded by science classroom discourse.

Blog Reading Response to Readings due by Tuesday at 9pm (Reminder 2 responses this semester need to use Web2.0) Respond to a blog by Thursday at 3pm DLP Plans Three Genres Lesson Plan or //Bring it to Class// Lesson Plans || 4.18.13 || ** Putting it All Together, Enduring Challenges **
 * TASKS **
 * Session 14


 * READ: **
 * Schoenbach et al.: Epilogue: Collaborating Beyond the Classroom
 * o Alvermann, et al, Ch. 11 New literacies, enduring challenges? The influence of capital on adolescent readers’ Internet practices

Blog Reading Response to Readings due by Tuesday at 9pm (Reminder 2 responses this semester need to use Web2.0)
 * TASKS **

Respond to a blog by Thursday at 3pm DLP Plans ||

DLP Write Up and Final Synthesis due on exam day.