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The Online Book Club

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The Online Book Club • Literature Circles

presented at

TAIS Technology Institute 2011

by

Melissa Smith

msmith@pdsmemphis.org    

4.15.11

 

Job Descriptions

4th Grade Job Descriptions

6th Grade Job Descriptions

Alternative Cooperative Large Group Job Description found at Making Curriculum Pop NING

 

Free Web 2.0 Tools Used or Recommended (for even the young students)

 

Assessments:

4th Grade Classroom Courtney Humphrey's Rubric

5th Grade Classroom Holly Butora's Rubric

Assessing Discussion Boards  http://www.mtsu.edu/ltanditc/docs/Discussion_Board_Rubrics.pdf

 

Student Reflection Journal Prompts Ideas

  1. What was your favorite part and why?
  2. Can you make any text-to-text, text-to-self, or text-to-world connections? Explain.
  3. What do you like about the way the author writes? What makes you say that?
  4. What part of the plot are you in right now? Be specific. 
  5. What is the theme of this book? How do you know?
  6. Has the author used humor? What parts have made you laugh and why?
  7. How does this book make you feel? Why?
  8. If you could talk to the author, what would you ask him or her? Why? What kind of person is the main character? Make claims and support them with specific evidence from the text.

 

Resources:

Sites


Books/articles:

 

Books We Have Used:

4th grade texts (discrimination theme)
Code Talker by Joseph Bruchac  *Movie
The Liberation of Gabriel Kingby K.L. Going
Jackie and Meby Dan Gutman
A Long Way to Chicago by Richard Peck

5th grade texts (Civil War setting)
Eben Tyne Powder Monkey by Patricia Beatty
Chasing Lincoln's Killer by James L. Swanson
Soldier's Heart by Gary Paulson
The Ghost Cadet by Elaine Alphin

6th grade texts (survival theme)
Passages- Darien's Rise (from the Adventures in Odyssey) by Paul McCusker  
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
Touching Spirit Bear by Ben Midaelsen

 

YouTube - TMB Panyee FC short film (used in slideshow to teach cooperation and team work)

 

 

 

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