Welcome back to LLED class. Here’s a rundown of the happenings in today’s class:
Temperature Check
If Roy Munson can keep his cool under pressure…
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjJaBJW7EOU[/youtube]
I reckon you can too! To see just how much pressure you’re under, we did a temperature check from 1 (“I’d rather sandpaper a bobcat’s butt in a phone booth than get out of bed today”) to 11 (“Giddyup! I’m golden”). Most TCs were around a 6 or 7. Considering that the Olympic high was wearing off, I figure this wasn’t too bad.
Writing Review
In an effort to put a bow on our examination of writing in the classroom and to solidify that content in your mind, we did a Circle of Knowledge activity. Here’s how it goes:
- List all you recall from our work on the teaching and assessment of writing. Draw a line under your list
- Go for a walk & talk to gather at least 3 ideas from your classmates
- Present a unique idea in the Circle of Knowledge, a circle formed around the classroom as ach TC gave a new writing-related idea.
The Reading Process
I gave a quick overview of the reading process outlined in Chapters 2 and 3 of the Student Diversity text.
Our Process
I explained that we would be doing the following in our examination of the reading process:
- Intro & Selection of Literature Circles books
- Your Thoughts on Effective Reading Instruction
- Examing the Reading Process In-Depth: Fiction
- Whole Class Novel Study
- Literature Circles
- Examing the Reading Process In-Depth: Non-Fiction
- Strategy for Textbook Reading
Lit Circle Book Talks and Selection
In order to ensure that you received a book to start reading in time for our Lit Circle conversations that will start on Tuesday, 9 March 2010, I did book talks on all the books in our Lit Kit:
- Night by Elie Wiesel
- Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
- Among the Hidden by Margaret Petersen Haddix
- The Crazy Man by Pamela Porter
- Silverwing by Kenneth Oppel
I showed book trailers from YouTube for the three books below:
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zc3V7ZcK0kg[/youtube]
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNL77KnIRI8&feature=PlayList&p=33CC1DBFD4F7A561&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=3[/youtube]
- Among the Hidden by Margaret Petersen Haddix
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXLGIokzbdA&feature=PlayList&p=123A9E1A17E13147&index=0&playnext=1[/youtube]
If you’re curious, here’s the file containing all the Book Talks I wrote up to deliver in this class:
LLED 320 Lit Circle Book Talks – March 2010
After considering which books were their favourites, each TC chose one and started to read it.
For class on Tuesday, 9 March 2010 please complete the following Lit Circle book activities:
- Read up to at least as far as your group agreed to
- Put a sticky note beside 1 or 2 passages of interest in your novel. Be prepared to “say something” about each passage in the next class.
Connecting to What You Know About Effective Reading Instruction
To wrap up class, I asked you do the following:
- Complete a placemat activity while answering the question “What factors help students to develop as readers?”
- Classify the responses into 4 or 5 key factors
We will compare your ideas to those presented in the research quoted in the Student Diversity text. That’ll happen next week. Please bring your textbook to class on Tuesday, 9 March 2010.
See you then true believers,
– Lawrence
