Haiku Revision
To get you thinking haiku again, I asked you to watch two video clips – a funny one and a serious one – and to bring the 5 criteria for a powerful haiku we developed in class back to the front of your brain. Here are the clips:
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwnqUmmJ-zE[/youtube]
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/2268876[/vimeo]
Next, after a short review of the principles of effective writing instruction, we engaged in Author’s Club – a process for refining writing that I picked up at a writing workshop by Diana Cruchley. Here’s the PDF I used to structure the Author’s Club work:
Here’s the PPT Slideshow I showed that served as a model mini-lesson on punctuation and line breaks in poetry:
For Tuesday’s class, please revise and create a good, final copy of your best haiku. Be sure to staple the original draft versions of all 3 poems to your best copy page.
In Tuesday’s class we will have Poetry Playoff in which 8 (or more! I have an idea.) randomly chosen poets will face off in a single-elimination tournament as a showcase for their haiku writing prowess.
Lit Circle Books Distribution
As the kick off to our work with Literature Circles, I organized the distribution of the texts we’re going to read. Due to time constraints, I gave an in depth book talk of only one book – The Crazy Man by Pamela Porter, Sarah book talked Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech and, for the rest, I only showed a book trailer or gave a quick blurb.
Here’s the list of in-depth book talks for most of the books in the kit:
Here are most of the book trailers and videos that I showed to “sell” the books:
Among the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufQeRrPQAbg&feature=fvwrel[/youtube]
Boy in the Striped Pajamas (actually a movie trailer) by John Boyne
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBdalsgNHsM&feature=related[/youtube]
The Giver by Lois Lowry
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNL77KnIRI8[/youtube]
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TnxXoMpF3c[/youtube]
Schooled by Louis Sachar
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gVC14-hcw4[/youtube]
If you were away from class and didn’t grab a book, please see me on Tuesday to get one.
Prior Knowledge on the Reading Process
As class wound down, I asked you to consider what you to consider factors that help students to develop as readers. You wrote your ideas on a numbered sheet of paper. Please bring that sheet and the mind map / graphic organizer you created to represent Ch 6 – The Whole Class Novel in the Student Diversity text to class on Tuesday… along with your haikus.
Cheers,
– Lawrence