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16 Dec 09

ReadWriteThink: Lesson Plan: Literature Circles: Getting Started

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31 Oct 09

ReadWriteThink: Lesson Plan: Textmasters: Shaking Up Textbook Reading in Science Classrooms

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25 Jun 09

In the Classroom: Don’t Blame the Book « educating alice

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kids are not in school so that they can tell us what they think about Holden
Caulfield. They’re in school to learn what to think about
To me the missing ingredient in this discussion is the teacher. A great
teacher can make most books interesting. (Mind you — I’m not saying
likable. You can enjoy the experience of reading and talking about a
particular book
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- Now I know that all too often teachers in schools sadly make the experience of
  reading a book together as a class a misery. But I have to say that I
  believe that done right it can be transcendent. With a great teacher a
  group becomes a community discussing and considering and wondering and thinking
  hard about all sorts of stuff by way of a great book. It bugs me that
  there is such a negative view about community book readings — IN SCHOOL SETTINGS
- After all, people are big on book groups and whole towns and cities reading a
  book together. Yet too many of these same folks tear up and spit out teachers
  and schools for doing something similar.
- Good teachers guide and prod and get everyone thinking hard
- It doesn’t always have to be just personal. Sometimes reading is about
  something else — about ideas, about the world, about all sorts of stuff.
- Charlotte’s Web we consider the circle of life, irony, nature, death,
- The kids move outside of their personal response to consider those of others and
  whether those change their own. The conversation is exhilarating.
- full of meaty stuff to tussle with, to consider, to rail against, or to love

23 Jun 09

Shouts & Murmurs: Book Club: Humor: The New Yorker

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discussion questions literaturecircles bookclub newyorker

4. Book-club members who have actually read this book have called its plot
“depressing,” “disgusting,” and “too much about poor people.” Does this suggest
that you, as a reader, have a moral obligation to say that you liked the
book?
5. Early in the prologue, we learn that lab animals will be mistreated as the
story progresses. In literature, why is it so much sadder when an animal dies
than when a person does? Why does God choose us to read horrible things like
this?