Gallagher stuff

As I've been saying all along, this book is almost exactly like the book I have to read for my Content Area Literacy class. They both have pretty much the same information, concepts, methods, etc. They both offer great information, it's just a litte redundant after a while...
Anyway, in chapter 5 the three key questions we read about in chapter 5 are really similar to the "About-Point" exercise that is recommended in the other book. Basically at the end of every section/chapter/paragraph/whatever the students write the phrase "This chapter was about ______ and the point was _____." Both of these are great ways to check comprehension.
One thing I hadn't heard about before and I thought could be a fun exercise was the Literary Dominoes idea. That seems like something that could definitely help students keep events in order.
My favorite idea for an activity was on page 100. The paragraph plug-ins was something I had thought about doing for my in-class lesson. It seems like a fun and orignial idea.
In chapter 6 the term "hitchhiking" made me giggle while I was reading. I think we're all guilty of "hitchhiking," but after I taught a lesson at my practicum school I have seen from the teacher's perspective how important it is to prevent that. My practicum teacher told me that she never ever does group work, only partner or individual. I don't necessarily agree with this, but I can see her point.
I appreciated Gallagher's point when he reminded us to make sure students are critical of ideas, not people. That's especially important when it comes to fragile high school egos.
The next chapter was about metaphors and I've done enough talking about metaphors lately, so I'm going to skip this one!