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ELA 924 Documentaries and Nonfiction (Online Course)

Documentaries and Nonfiction offers a creative and innovative approach to teaching nonfiction reading strategies within all disciplines. The critical thinking skills students learn while “reading” documentaries will transfer naturally to their reading of nonfiction print texts. Using documentaries to build nonfiction reading skills makes concepts like propaganda, irony, audience, tone, and bias accessible and tangible for students. The teaching of nonfiction will be enhanced by the engaging strategies and resources featured in this course. The increased emphasis on nonfiction texts in the Common Core State Standards makes this course more important than ever.

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Registration Information
CREDIT 3 semester units
FEES $500 ($375 tuition, plus materials/adm fee of $125)
INSTRUCTOR Elaine Reimer-Paré
empare@videotron.ca
(514)696-1631

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PDCourse Offerings

  • LIT 901 Short Stories from American Literature
  • LIT 902 Studies in the American Novel
  • LIT 903 Hispanic Literature: Gary Soto
  • LIT 904 Children’s Literature
  • LIT 905 Folktales from Around the World
  • LIT 906 British Novels
  • LIT 907 Short Stories from Around the World
  • LIT 908 Poetry for Children
  • LIT 909 Fantasy Literature
  • LIT 910 The Young Adult Novel
  • LIT 912 African Folktales
  • LIT 914 American Drama (Online Course)
  • ELA 912 Developing Adolescent Readers and Writers
  • ELA 912A Developing Adolescent Readers and Writers (Online Course)
  • ELA 913 Teaching Writing
  • ELA 914 Reel Reading; Film and Literacy (Online Course)
  • ELA 915 Teaching Grammar in Context (Online Course)
  • ELA 924 Documentaries and Nonfiction (Online Course)
  • MAT 912 Great Mathematicians Before 1700
  • MAT 913 Great Mathematicians After 1700
  • MAT 914 Patterns and Problem Solving
  • MAT 915 Recreational Mathematics for the Classroom
  • MAT 921 Teaching First Year Algebra
  • EDU 919 Women in Mathematics and Science
  • EDU 920 Using Literature to Teach Math

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