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Loading... Teaching Historical Fiction with Ready-Made Literature Circles for Secondary Readersby Carianne Bernadowski
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Literature circles have been popular for some time and this book concentrates on historical fiction. For each book, a few activities are recommended along with lots of discussion questions and some resources. The titles are well chosen and recent. For example, The Boy in the Striped Pagamas is another heart-wrenching Holocaust story with a good film to back it up. While we like the probing questions, it would seem that in this world now of the Internet and technology that literature circles could become much more exciting as well as rigorous if the kids were allowed and encouraged to digitally curate around the novel in a “room” where the novel would be cut up into pieces and small groups or individuals probe the meanings of the setting, the Hocaust in general, the camp in question, the stereotypes of the book, the deeper meaning of the tragedy on history since the terrible event. Not only could the discussion advance but so much more critical thinking, curation, creativity, learning how to learn skills, and creativity could be developed simultaneously. Such a book would make an excellent Book2Cloud edition for a group who were reading the novel either in paper or as an ebook available from the school or public library. This book is a good one, but it lacks the vision to really push the teacher librarian and the classroom teacher into the world of social media construction that the kids would flourish in. When will we see titles that include all kinds of mashups that deep understanding through information and tech tools and in a collaborative environment. Volunteer to write that book or digital guide. Recently there has been some significant interest in the professional world dealing with secondary students and book clubbing/reading. This book offers some interesting ideas about how to engage secondary readers in historical fiction areas. In Part 1 there are templates that can be used with a variety of books and who make excellent discussion starters. In Part 2 there is a collection of thoughts about how to "do" a literature circle with certain titles that may be of interest to secondary age students. The selection of the titles and authors is diverse and interesting unto itself. It wouldn't be hard to substitute one that you prefer to do for one of these, however. Covering many areas in history, these templates align with current state and national standards, and are about popular areas that many history lessons teach. More for the novice to this type of teaching than the expert, it draws ideas that lend themselves to interdisciplinary lessons. It would benefit from having more information about technological connections that can be made using these scenarios in history, but that is another book. Recommended. no reviews | add a review
This comprehensive step-by-step guide provides practical guidance to implement literature circles in any social studies or language arts classroom No library descriptions found. |
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