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Top Ten List #8 (Items 71- 80)
Top Ten Courses I took at American University
| Title | Semester | Description | Final Project | Final Grade | |
| 10. | EDU-371 Foundations of Reading Instruction | S04 | Beginning foundations of how to teach reading to young children. | Group Project: Author Study of Roald Dahl | A- |
| 9. | PERF-115G Theatre: Principles, Plays and Performances | F02 | Introduction to theatre history and play criticism. | My computer crashed after my first term and I don’t have any records from this class. | A |
| 8. | LIT-125G Great Books That Shaped The Western World | F03 | Introduction to the 3’x3’ shelf of great Western fiction (from The Bible through Shakespeare). | Final Paper: What Shakespeare thought of Women: A Comparison of Enlightenment Ideologies and Women in Shakespearean Tragedies | B |
| 7. | EDU-519 Uses of Technology In Education | F04 | The uses Fireworks, Dreamweaver, Power Point, iMovie and Inspiration as tools for teaching. | Final Project: Create a unit connecting tech to curriculum and “student samples.” Students will use Dreamweaver to make a title, Power Point to show story board and iMovie to edit an acted piece of Shakespearean text. | A |
| 6. | ANTH-235G Early America: The Buried Past | S05 | A look at Colonial America through houses, privies and family lineage. | Final Paper/Project: Family History/Tree and research model | A- |
| 5. | EDU-212 Methodology of Sign Language | S05 | Sign Language level 1 | Final Paper: Double Pleasure: An Inside Look At The Deaf/Gay Community Final Project: Sign a Song: Boys and Girls by Good Charlotte | A |
| 4. | ENVS-396 Selected Topics: Non-Recurring Natual History Of The Florida Keys | S05 (seems like a good semester) | We went snorkeling in the Florida Keys… that’s about it. | Final Project (while still in the field): A Power Point presentation of some of the fish we saw and details of their natural habitats. | A |
| 3. | EDU-319 Children’s Lit: The Multicultural and International Approach | S04 | A guide to evaluating Children’s Lit for cultural bias and relevancy to modern education. | Final Project: Create a children’s book: I wrote Cinder Elmo a gay retelling of Cindrella. | A |
| 2. | PERF-252 Fundamentals of Acting II | S03 | Shakespeare monologues, contemporary monologues, contemporary scenes. | Final Presentation: Serenading Louie with write up | B+ |
| 1. | EDU-552 Teaching Methods: Teaching Mathematics In Elementary Education | F05 | Math skills and their pedagogy. | Final Project: Practical application of a Math lesson plan. | A |
| 0 | EDU-499 Student Teaching | S06 | Full time internship in 3rd grade. This “class” had to be included because it was the best semester of undergrad, but wasn’t quite a class. | Final Project: ePortfolio and evaluations. | A |
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