Salon Bray @ PFA

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a hogde-podge of stuff i'm doing in my classroom @ pfa: some episodes for students who are scheduled for one class but need to be in another, others for students who miss our reading sessions.

  • # Episodes

    11 episodes

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Episodes of Salon Bray @ PFA

    • Play Bray's 11 - Salon Bray @ PFA on Blip Salon Bray @ PFA episodes on Blip

      Bray's 11

      Someone wants to hurt Bray, the beloved AP writing teacher. Who? Why? And will they succeed when the AP writing exam turns up missing only 11 days before it must be taken? This parody of Ocean's 11 served as the end-of-the-year-exhale-after-the-exam project for my AP writing students. I set them free to see where their imaginations might take them. It's amazing how closely life can imitate art or vice versa. Somehow the students who ended the year with me convinced the students who left early ...

      • Release date
        Jun 10, 2010
      • Runtime
        31:42
    • Play Everybody Knows - Salon Bray @ PFA on Blip Salon Bray @ PFA episodes on Blip

      Everybody Knows

      Eric and Jasmine must filter through the well-meaning but specious advice of their friends to discover whether dating is worth the work. This is the inaugural film project of high school writer and director Tyler Roberts. It finds its way here because Tyler asked me to be the sponsor of the film club he founded in this his senior year at Pine Forge, PFA Productions. Little did he know that sponsorship for me means I teach and facilitate, but I don't work. The group had to sink or swim on their...

      • Release date
        Jun 9, 2010
      • Runtime
        45:54
    • Play HE2 10-8-09 - Salon Bray @ PFA on Blip Salon Bray @ PFA episodes on Blip

      HE2 10-8-09

      discussion of irony and ambiguity in the stories "Lamb to the Slaughter" by Roald Dahl and "The Possibility of Evil" by Shirley Jackson

      • Release date
        Oct 8, 2009
      • Runtime
        31:58
    • Play Singperation - Salon Bray @ PFA on Blip Salon Bray @ PFA episodes on Blip

      Singperation

      video invocation offered at the 2009 Fall Singperation (student concert) at PFA

      • Release date
        Oct 5, 2009
      • Runtime
        10:56
    • Play HE2 (12/8-08) - Salon Bray @ PFA on Blip Salon Bray @ PFA episodes on Blip

      HE2 (12/8-08)

      it's 2 days before the end of semester project is due. for the past week they have been designing (and completing) activities, as if they were teachers, that solicit progressively higher order thinking, as based on bloom's taxonomy of cognitive processes. if they've been keeping up, students should be working on an EVALUATION activity in class today.i have been back and forth between the classroom and deans council (on which i am the faculty rep) all morning. i've just given the students the f...

      • Release date
        Dec 31, 2008
      • Runtime
        09:54
    • Play HE2 (12/2-08) - Salon Bray @ PFA on Blip Salon Bray @ PFA episodes on Blip

      HE2 (12/2-08)

      review of monday's lesson (introduction of bloom's taxonomy & our end of semester project).introduction of the KNOWLEDGE portion of the project. each of the other 7 steps followed the same general pattern. knowing that students often become overwhelmed looking at a project in totality, i fed them the elephant one bite at a time. the total project was due 12/10.

      • Release date
        Dec 31, 2008
      • Runtime
        30:27
    • Play HE2 (11/19-08) - Salon Bray @ PFA on Blip Salon Bray @ PFA episodes on Blip

      HE2 (11/19-08)

      discussion of "The First Seven Years" from the collection "Hearts that Love" from the sophomore literature text

      • Release date
        Nov 19, 2008
      • Runtime
        36:06
    • Play HE2 (11/13-08) - Salon Bray @ PFA on Blip Salon Bray @ PFA episodes on Blip

      HE2 (11/13-08)

      This was supposed to be a reprise of the previous days sermon, which was "Don't let others (not even adults)--well-meaning though they may be--rob you of the opportunity to learn." It was my response to my students excuses for their poor mid-quarter test performance, which reflects how little they have taken the time to learn thus far. Many of them want to believe it would make all the difference if I were to do just a little more. I explained to them that the reason they do so poorly is becau...

      • Release date
        Nov 17, 2008
      • Runtime
        43:42
    • Play HE2 (10/23-08) - Salon Bray @ PFA on Blip Salon Bray @ PFA episodes on Blip

      HE2 (10/23-08)

      our common good covenant; community pointsat the beginning of the school year we answered 5 questions (Teen Leadership, The Flipen Group):how do you want to be treated by your teacher?how do you want to be treated by your classmates?how do you think you teacher wants to be treated by you?what do we do is someone in our class violates these things?what do we do to celebrate keeping our commitments to one another?as a social experiment, the class went the first quarter without any reference to o...

      • Release date
        Oct 23, 2008
      • Runtime
        21:22
    • Play HE2 (10/22-08) - Salon Bray @ PFA on Blip Salon Bray @ PFA episodes on Blip

      HE2 (10/22-08)

      the 4 purposes of writing; the 3 parts of a good argument

      • Release date
        Oct 22, 2008
      • Runtime
        17:49
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