Prose and Context is a weekly series that explores practical and current issues surrounding how to best help our students achieve real and lasting literacy both inside and outside of the classroom. Hosted by the Lexington Christian Academy English department, conversations are focused on encouraging innovation and scholarship in ourselves and our fellow educators. We believe that being thoughtful and strategic in our classrooms promotes lifelong learners. With this in mind, our hosts tackle topics such as the role of grades in the classroom, the relevancy of classic literature, the power of incorporating tech tools, strategies for delivering meaningful feedback to students, and a variety of issues relating to our field.
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Prose and Context is a weekly series that explores practical and current issues surrounding how to best help our students achieve real and lasting literacy both inside and outside of the classroom. Hosted by the Lexington Christian Academy English department, conversations are focused on encouraging innovation and scholarship in ourselves and our fellow educators. We believe that being thoughtful and strategic in our classrooms promotes lifelong learners. With this in mind, our hosts tackle topics such as the role of grades in the classroom, the relevancy of classic literature, the power of incorporating tech tools, strategies for delivering meaningful feedback to students, and a variety of issues relating to our field.
Rebecca Lefroy invites a few of her students to discuss their experiences with a student-centered, activity-based unit intended to equip middle school students with an interest in and understanding of journalism.
LCA's librarian Molly MacDougald celebrates National Library Week by interviewing a teenage librarian at our local library and exploding some of the awesome free resources available to our students!
In this episode, Danah Hashem gives some of the reasons why the LCA English faculty believes this podcast has been a meaningful and important part of our professional development and identities as teachers of writing.
Karen Elliott discusses one of her favorite novels, "Gone With the Wind," and how its use in the classroom can be particularly relevant to our students daily, social, political, and faith lives.
Danah Hashem discusses strategies and classroom policies that encourage students resist the temptation to fixate on grades and to focus on learning as a process and scholarly endeavor.
Based on her work with LCA's international student population, Nancy Nies discusses the many ways in which everyday vocabulary can hold ELL students back and how we as educators can support them in their scholarship.
Danah Hashem interviews her student, Khora Lane, on her process of growing from a struggling reader and writer to a student who currently loves both and engages in both outside the classroom on a regular basis.
In this episode, ELL teacher Nancy Nies explores using rapping in class to help ELL students explore and develop confidence in their use of figurative language and literary devices including personification, alliteration, simile, and metaphor.
In Episode 8, the English Department at LCA takes some time to commemorate the incredible life and legacy of middle school English teacher Lori Johnson, who passed unexpectedly on this past November 7th.
Prose and Context is a weekly series that explores practical and current issues surrounding how to best help our students achieve real and lasting literacy both inside and outside of the classroom. Hosted by the Lexington Christian Academy English department, conversations are focused on encouraging innovation and scholarship in ourselves and our fellow educators. We believe that being thoughtful and strategic in our classrooms promotes lifelong learners. With this in mind, our hosts tackle topics such as the role of grades in the classroom, the relevancy of classic literature, the power of incorporating tech tools, strategies for delivering meaningful feedback to students, and a variety of issues relating to our field.
