A Friend of Their Minds: Capitalizing on the Oral Tradition of  My African American Students
BEGINNING OF SCHOOL YEAR

YVONNE DIVANS HUTCHINSON
KING-DREW MEDICAL MAGNET SCHOOL
LOS ANGELES, CA

This page describes how Yvonne Hutchinson sets up her students for rigorous academic discussions of literature during the first weeks of the school year. The videos are large files which may take some time to load on your computer, particularly if it has a slow processor or internet connection. They require the Quicktime plugin.

Context and Reflections

  1. Analysis of National Board Videotape
  2. Where I Began/ Where I Begin

Materials and Strategies

  1. Rationale for Promoting Literate Discourse
  2. Rationale for Socratic Seminar

Video 1. Introducing the Class Scribe Report, Critical Reading Strategies, and Readers' Theater

10/2/03 (46:48)

Video 2. Discussing Marking Up the Text and Responding to the Literature (1)

10/8/03 (13:24)

Video 3. Discussing Marking Up the Text and Responding to the Literature (2)

10/8/03 (47:15)

Video 4. Introducing Socratic Seminar

10/13/03 (24:35)