NEVER underestimate the power of choice and ownership of the process!!!! Even if it's a choice between two things..... I think reading circles would work great. You could model using some short stories first,even poetry. Perhaps tie it all together thematically????
Sally On 8/12/09 2:27 PM, "reading" <readingwritingliter...@gmail.com> wrote: > This is my first year actually teaching a 7th grade advanced reading class. > It is also the first year this class has been offered at the school. > > I'm trying to get a rough idea of a schedule. > > Here's my question, do you think this could work? > > I ordered *Tangerine* by Edward Bloor for the advanced class. The regular > reading class reads *Touching Spirit Bear *by Ben Mikaelson. I'd like to do > literature circles with this group of students and was thinking of having > both books being read by the advanced class at the same time through > literature circles. I'm hoping we'd be able to have some whole class > discussions comparing the characters in each novel as some of the themes > overlap. But I'm worried it might not go as smoothly as I plan. > > Do you think I should stick to just reading Tangerine together as a class? > _______________________________________________ > Mosaic mailing list > Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org > To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to > http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. > > Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive. > _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive.
