Mrs. Mac wrote: > With my honors classes I use high level novels and conduct Book Bites. > Students are given 4 weeks to read a novel. The 4th week I hand out a list > of > 15 to 20 discussion / prompts for the students to prepare for Book Bites. On > the day of Book Bites we all volunteer to bring our favorite finger > munchies. We use the prompt / questions and discuss the book for that > period. I tell > them I will be choosing one of these questions for them to respond to in a > Response to Literature writing. It will not be a traditional book report, > but > we will address conflict or theme as well as symbolism, connections and > evaluations. Since it was my first year I already want to change and adapt > this > Book Bites to my Basic Classes using the stories in the Holt . . the better > ones, what few their are. My problem is finding enough novels for all the > students. Perhaps I could do Literature Circle Book Bites and have group > novels > in the same genre or author or theme. >
Pam writes: This is a really cool idea. I think I'm going to see if I can tweak it to fit my kiddos. I'm also going to share with our gifted teacher. Pam Tempest Team Neon-6th Gr. ELA Hudson Middle School http://nlcommunities.com/communities/tempest "The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn." John Lubbock ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com. _______________________________________________ The Literacy Workshop ListServ http://www.literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/lit_literacyworkshop.org. Search the LIT archives at http://snipurl.com/LITArchive
