Materials and Bibliography
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
Approved trillium book used throughout the unit.
Slumdog Millionaire
Film widely available.
TED Talk: Aimee Mullins: The opportunity of adversity
This is where I found the video for the Overcoming Advertising Activity
http://www.ted.com/talks/aimee_mullins_the_opportunity_of_adversity.html
Songs that deal with Autism/Asperger's Forum
This is where I found the song "I am a Rock" by Simon and Garfunkel and would be a good resource for more songs relating to Asperger's Syndrome.
http://www.wrongplanet.net/postt24481.html
Activity Ideas for the Classroom
This is where I got the idea for the Bubblr activity and the 3-on-3 (which is adapted from this website's 5 Card Flickr Story)
http://burbankeld.edublogs.org/
Short Stories from Disabled Authors
This is where I found the following short story and would be a great resource for more.
http://www.disabilityartsonline.org.uk/creative_writing
SHORT STORY (author has Asperger's Syndrome):
http://www.disabilityartsonline.org.uk/richard-longstaff-a-curlew-calls
Although I did not use this short story in the unit plan, I would have this short story on hand to be able to use on a day where there was more time than thought (such as if students get an activity done faster than expected).
Seamus’s Kite
The landscape of the autistic mind, blue hills,
yellow rivers and birds with six heads,
trees with leafs of tolerance
and the cold wet bark of injustice,
paths, mazes that lead to the left front lobe
of empathy, lacking and weak.
The steam engine of memory with long-term brilliance
and rubbish tips of emotions,
flowers that speak of immaturity and the poor ability
to read facial expressions,
new towns of social obstacles that are granted
planning permission on green field sites.
Motorways, junction three for adolescents
with a diversion causing delays for adulthood,
service station car parks full with no likelihood
of space in the near future,
pay and display, penny for your thoughts
and a tenner for your acceptance.
Railway sidings of nerve ends in the land
of well-read Betjeman, tower blocks
of creativity on the mundane estates of Larkin,
landing on runway nine, Seamus Heaney
on the silk of a purple kite.
Dark valleys of anxiety, cliffs of night terrors
grow with the loss of employment,
the odd, outsider slapping his fists on the steamy
windows of Café Normality,
closed sign flipped over and the key
of diagnosis turned in the door.
The bridge of self acceptance lies beneath
all of this, time is on my side
for once, so I dictate the soft and gentle
pace of living, the rush hour of social interaction
thins
as the lights change.
Approved trillium book used throughout the unit.
Slumdog Millionaire
Film widely available.
TED Talk: Aimee Mullins: The opportunity of adversity
This is where I found the video for the Overcoming Advertising Activity
http://www.ted.com/talks/aimee_mullins_the_opportunity_of_adversity.html
Songs that deal with Autism/Asperger's Forum
This is where I found the song "I am a Rock" by Simon and Garfunkel and would be a good resource for more songs relating to Asperger's Syndrome.
http://www.wrongplanet.net/postt24481.html
Activity Ideas for the Classroom
This is where I got the idea for the Bubblr activity and the 3-on-3 (which is adapted from this website's 5 Card Flickr Story)
http://burbankeld.edublogs.org/
Short Stories from Disabled Authors
This is where I found the following short story and would be a great resource for more.
http://www.disabilityartsonline.org.uk/creative_writing
SHORT STORY (author has Asperger's Syndrome):
http://www.disabilityartsonline.org.uk/richard-longstaff-a-curlew-calls
Although I did not use this short story in the unit plan, I would have this short story on hand to be able to use on a day where there was more time than thought (such as if students get an activity done faster than expected).
Seamus’s Kite
The landscape of the autistic mind, blue hills,
yellow rivers and birds with six heads,
trees with leafs of tolerance
and the cold wet bark of injustice,
paths, mazes that lead to the left front lobe
of empathy, lacking and weak.
The steam engine of memory with long-term brilliance
and rubbish tips of emotions,
flowers that speak of immaturity and the poor ability
to read facial expressions,
new towns of social obstacles that are granted
planning permission on green field sites.
Motorways, junction three for adolescents
with a diversion causing delays for adulthood,
service station car parks full with no likelihood
of space in the near future,
pay and display, penny for your thoughts
and a tenner for your acceptance.
Railway sidings of nerve ends in the land
of well-read Betjeman, tower blocks
of creativity on the mundane estates of Larkin,
landing on runway nine, Seamus Heaney
on the silk of a purple kite.
Dark valleys of anxiety, cliffs of night terrors
grow with the loss of employment,
the odd, outsider slapping his fists on the steamy
windows of Café Normality,
closed sign flipped over and the key
of diagnosis turned in the door.
The bridge of self acceptance lies beneath
all of this, time is on my side
for once, so I dictate the soft and gentle
pace of living, the rush hour of social interaction
thins
as the lights change.