DARE TO DIFFERENTIATE: Using literature circles to meet the needs of all learners
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DARE TO DIFFERENTIATE:
Using literature circles to
meet the needs of all
learners
RETHINKING RTI
RTI MODEL
● Literary Quality● Engaging Content● Cultural Diversity● Reading Difficulty● Genre Variety● Gender Dynamics
BOOK SELECTION
CRITERIA
TWO GUIDING EDUCATIONAL PHILOSOPHIES
1. 21st Century Learning
2. Bloom's Taxonomy
BLOOM'S TAXONOMY
- with help (and permission!) from Kelly Gallagher!
PARENT LETTER
BOOK GROUPINGS:
1. Overcoming Adversity
2. The Beau Geste or
Noble Sacrifice
3. Confronting Mortality
OVERCOMING ADVERSITY
Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman AlexieAmulet by Kazu Kibuishi (graphic novel)Copper Sun by Sharon DraperDefine “Normal” by Julie-Anne PetersEsperanza Rising by Pam Muñoz RyanForged by Fire by Sharon DraperHope Was Here by Joan BauerOctober Sky by Homer Hickam (Challenge)One Fat Summer by Robert LipsyteOut of the Dust by Karen HesseSpeak by Laurie Halse AndersonTangerine by Edward BloorUnbroken by Laura Hillenbrand (Challenge)Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen (Challenge)
Essential Questions: What does it mean to overcome adversity? What does it take to overcome adversity? How do we overcome adversity in our own lives?
Enduring Understandings: It takes perseverance, belief in oneself, and a positive attitude to overcome adversity. There are many different ways in which people face and overcome adversity. It is difficult to overcome adversity without the help and support of others.
CONFRONTING MORTALITYNovel Titles Used:
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott CardEverlost by Neal ShustermanExtremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer (Challenge)Fallen Angels by Walter Dean MyersGodless by Pete HautmanIf I Stay by Gayle FormanInto Thin Air by Jon Krakauer (Challenge)Numbering All the Bones by Ann RinaldiTale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (Challenge)Tears of a Tiger by Sharon DraperThe Book Thief by Markus Zusak (Challenge)Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay AsherWhat Happened to Cass McBride by Gail Giles
Essential Question: Are we governed by fate, free-will, or a greater power?
Enduring Understandings: Literature provokes a discussion of fate and/or the consequences of choice. How an author tells a story affects the impact of the telling. Valid judgments are text supported.
THE BEAU GESTE or NOBLE
SACRIFICENovel Titles Used:
After Ever After by Jordan SonnenblickCosmic by Frank Cottrell BoyceDrums, Girls, & Dangerous Pie by Jordan SonnenblickI Am the Messenger by Markus Zusak (Challenge)Right Behind You by Gail GilesShattering Glass by Gail GilesShip Breaker by Paolo BacigalupiThe Golden Compass by Philip PullmanThe Help by Kathryn Stockett (Challenge)The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick NessWhat I Saw and How I Lied by Judy BlundellLife of Pi by Yann Martel (Challenge)
Essential Questions: What does it mean to be disempowered? Do the empowered have a responsibility to the oppressed and the disempowered?
Enduring Understandings: Our self image impacts how we treat others. Our sense of self is influenced by relationships, conflicts, and experiences.
21st CENTURY EXTENSIONS
● BLOGGING● GOOGLE SEARCH STORIES● GRAPHIC NOVEL PAGES● PODCASTING● VOICETHREAD● iMOVIE● LITERATURE CIRCLE DISCUSSION● CLASSROOM ACTIVITIES
BLOGGING6 REASONS TO HAVE STUDENTS BLOG, and other thoughts on blogging
TOP TEN TECHNOLOGY BLOGS FOR EDUCATORS TO FOLLOW Tt
FIND THE RIGHT BLOG
FOR YOU AND YOUR
STUDENTS:
BLOGGER (Google)
CLASS BLOGMEISTER
EDUBLOGS
GOOGLE SEARCH
STORIES:
STUDENT EXAMPLES
GOOGLE SEARCH STORY
What I Saw and How I Lied
by Judy Blundell
GOOGLE SEARCH STORY
The Knife of Never Letting Go
by Patrick Ness
CREATE YOUR OWN
GOOGLE SEARCH STORY!
Tell a story in seven Google searches or less!
GRAPHIC NOVEL PAGES
with Magic Life Comiq
Students examine a text to find the themes and then create their own graphic story to represent one of the same themes.
LINKS
RTI MODEL: http://goo.gl/Dwbg4PARENT LETTER: http://goo.gl/WcE2wNOVEL STUDY PROJECT: http://goo.gl/QrtylBLOGGING: http://goo.gl/G140wTECHNOLOGY BLOGS: http://goo.gl/ZYika
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