Oh.... I love this. I thought about my "name" lesson and decided that this could help me with characterizatin as well as we do characterization, and your skit idea is fantastic.... Maybe they could discuss their names as part of it all. Just think of what Charles Dickens did to names to push Characterization to the Max. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tena Linsbeck-Perron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "A list for improving literacy with focus on middle grades." <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 10:45 AM Subject: Re: [LIT] Lessons to share...
> Oh Bill. I love it! I flagged your post for use this school year. I have > read both books and so have many of my students. I read *The Girls* aloud > to > a sixth grade class during my Internship 6 years ago. The kids hung on > every > word and the boys were as into it as the girls. So much worthwile > discussion > came from this great read. > > On 7/24/07, Bill IVEY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi! >> >> Two years ago, I taught a lesson in characterization that seemed to work >> pretty well. About two-thirds of my students were reading "The Girls" by >> Amy Goldman Koss, which deals with girl-on-girl bullying from the >> perspective of five different girls involved (the leader, the enforcer, >> the passive observer, the reluctant participant, the victim). The other >> third were reading "A Mango-Shaped Space" by Wendy Mass, a sort of >> coming-of-age novel about a girl who discovers she has synesthesia (and a >> fantastic book, by the way; highly recommended by nearly all my students >> who've read it). >> >> Early on in the novels, I made a number of groups with two "The Girls" >> kids and one "Mango" kid. They were each to choose a character from their >> book, imagine that the three were sharing a cabin in summer camp, and >> write and perform a short skit. As I had hoped, they ended up explaining >> to each other who their characters were and what they were like, while >> caught up in the creativity of how characters from different books in >> different worlds would interact, and the skits were both enjoyable and >> insightful. >> >> I suppose this could be adapted even for a pure reading workshop class, >> with random groups and everyone simply choosing a character from whatever >> they are reading at the moment. >> >> What other ideas are out there?! >> >> Take care, >> Bill Ivey >> Stoneleigh-Burnham School >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 >> > > > -- > Tena > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
