WOW!!! The more I read, the more I enjoy this book! This information is so relevant, so creative, so modern! I cannot wait to use some of this information in my classroom. The section about student creativity that relate to their reading was amazing. I could have never come up with ideas like rewriting certain places, characters, traits, etc. These are all great ideas that will promote creativity in the classroom and I think that is great.
The other ideas that I would love to incorporate into my classroom are found on pages 163-4. In one of my high school English classes we had a list of choices such as these, but they didn’t involve ideas this great. The home page, yearbook, chat room, and email list ideas are very modern and I think that students will really enjoy and relate to them. Others ideas that I did in high school were the collage, interview, and video. But my favorite was an interview involving songs. We would pick a character from a story and then create questions to ask them. The responses were lines from a song. We had to tape this on those great little cassettes and present them to class. My entire class enjoyed this and many of my classmates were really creative in it.
Also, this chapter had some wonderful ideas regarding teaching poetry, young adult literature, and Shakespeare in the class. It taught me some key things that I will incorporate into my classroom someday about reading aloud, criticism, reader response, and organization. In general, this chapter will be one very great reference for books, lessons, activities, and other information in my classroom and I hope you all found it to be as helpful.
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I agree. The more I read this book, the more I think, "How have I survived so long without this kind of textbook?" I think I have learned more from this book than any other educational text that has been assigned for a classroom (if they even assigned a text-book)!
I also loved all the ideas that came from this chapter. What would I do without them? I am certainly glad that there are so many creative ideas that I have been exposed to this semester already. Thank goodness because I don't think I could come up with anything near as creative on a day to day basis.
This book is more like a first-person novel in the way it reads. All of the personal experiences the author uses in her writing make it more interesting. Definitely better than reading a textbook that throws a lot of facts and statistics out. Great job, Christenbury.
I would love to see your song from the activity if you still have it. That sounds like a fun way to get students involved in the class at the beginning of a year or semester.
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