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Looks like you are collecting quite a bit of content in your wiki. :)
I have to agree with what @marama28 said above -- your curriculum so far looks content-based. However, building a curriculum from the bottom up is so difficult. MYP also advocates context-based curriculum (as does Canadian curriculum). However, I realize that most schools that are not MYP or do not have other such forward-thinking models to work with, and thus sometimes you are asked to "come up" with something very last minute, like you are.
My suggestion, in this situation -- see if you can\'t pick / choose some content and link them by theme or guiding idea. Come up with an essential unit question through which you will explore all the content, skills, and concepts. This will give your curriculum some depth and unity, and will make the links more obvious to your students, too -- what I think @Anonym was getting at.
And @Alex - I have also seen very few MS Anthologies that provide "everything." However, the American ones I\'ve used have been quite good for me to dip in / out of, and I like that their content is usually (though not always) grouped by theme rather than genre. We use Elements of Literature and find it suits our purposes for several units or parts of units, though we are never using entire chunks of the anthology as the stand-alone unit. I find that these anthologies at least tend to be more holistically-focused than the UK anthologies, which to me are all skill-and-drill, or ask useless reading comprehension questions, rather than exploring The Big Ideas and higher-level thinking skills.
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@Marcy - I teach Middle and High school and I often let these students even dance in class while they are learning / listening. Whatever works, I say. Of course, it\'s a delicate balance, as sometimes other students are distracted by this -- so I only allow it when it is appropriate. Or sometimes I will put all these students + the kinesthetic learners together so they all can dance / move / fidget. I used to teach one student in particular, a 12th grader, who HAD to stand up and walk around when he was thinking. So while the rest of his class sat at desks / computers to plan their world literature papers, this guy was wandering around, notepad in hand, pacing back and forth. And he wrote wonderfully!
I think the key is about balance. Yes, they need to be given the opportunity to let it "all hang out" but they also need to be able to control it to some extent because that is how the world works. They won\'t be able to stand up and walk around in the middle of an opera, or the ER hospital room when their wife is giving birth, or on an airplane during take-off. I have friends -- adult friends! -- who are ADHD (you never grow out of it) who still have to find the balance. What do they do? In places where they know they will have to sit still, they bring something with them to pay with -- a smooshy ball, 0r silly putty, or something else non-disruptive but that keeps them occupied." ); document.write( " " ); document.write( "