Saturday, August 16, 2008

Marshall Dreams:Group Share Discussion

Please make a plan as to how you might share this book with the rest of the class. To what does the book lend itslelf? How can you develop a feasible and engaging group share:
Poems
Character webs
Person on the Street Interview
Different Endings: leave class guessing
ABC book (electronic format?)
Act out a dramatic scene from the book

Please respond to one other entry on how to share this book.

Fig Pudding: Group Share Discussion

Please make a plan as to how you might share this book with the rest of the class. To what does the book lend itslelf? How can you develop a feasible and engaging group share:
Poems
Character webs
Person on the Street Interview
Different Endings: leave class guessing
ABC book (electronic format?)
Act out a dramatic scene from the book

Please respond to one other entry on how to share this book.

Uncle Daddy: Group Share Discussion

Please make a plan as to how you might share this book with the rest of the class. To what does the book lend itslelf? How can you develop a feasible and engaging group share:
Poems
Character webs
Person on the Street Interview
Different Endings: leave class guessing
ABC book (electronic format?)
Act out a dramatic scene from the book

Please respond to one other entry on how to share this book.

A Writing kind of Day Group Share Discussion

Please make a plan as to how you might share this book with the rest of the class. To what does the book lend itslelf? How can you develop a feasible and engaging group share:
Poems
Character webs
Person on the Street Interview
Different Endings: leave class guessing
ABC book (electronic format?)
Act out a dramatic scene from the book

Please respond to one other entry on how to share this book.

A Writing Kind of Day: Golden Lines

Golden Lines "Golden lines" are powerful quotes that automatically provide interesting discussion material. Many students find it much easier to select something the author said than to come up with their own reactions. Therefore, Golden Lines are an easy and effective strategy for gathering information to discuss.
Post your Golden Lines for Marshfield Dreams to invite discussion.

Please respond to one other golden lines entry.

A Writing Kind of Day: Discussion Question

What are some important discussion questions you are considering in regards to this book? These questions will be ones that the group members will really want to talk about. They are questions which might invite debate, and speculation using information from the text and the readers background knowledge.

Post your important discussion question or questions.

Please respond to one other entry regarding discussion questions.

A Writing Kind of Day: Research

Researcher: Your job is to find some background information related to an important idea in the reading. Search through available references such as library books, reference books such as the encyclopedia, magazines. You might even interview someone who knows about your topic. Find some websites on the Internet so that you can do your investigation online. Share an interesting tidbit related to your reading.

Please respond to one other Research entry.