In my 7th grade challenge I start them with shorter works. I use the Great Books and each group of four has a different story. For me, these are the very top readers, many having scored 13+ in our assessments. They need very challenging stuff and this is just the right age to get them thinking. The motto of our class is "Thinking is reading" and they use interactive inquiry/ questioning as thinking (QAR)/Socratic seminar in groups similar to lit circles. They they proceed into the Touchstone book and we tackle articles by all kinds of classical writers. Their favorite is usually "The Allegory of the Cave" because we study that by rewriting into it in the point of view of every group. I finish the year with the Persuasion Unit from William and Mary (I learned about this in my gifted reading class). This includes 4 whole books and deep work on the nature of persuasion and change. During the year, my students also read a book a week (32 books--all 7th graders do this) and I slip in mini- lessons every time I see a hintof a strategy some are struggling with or don't know. All assessments include checks that they have met the 7th grade benchmarks. Don't know if any of this helps. This is just a different prep for me because I also teach and co-teach all of the rest of the 7th grade reading classes including the Second Chance Readers and the IEP kids. ---- 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. >
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