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	<title>Teaching The Outsiders (and more) &#187; open mouth quizzes</title>
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		<title>Open Mouth Democracy?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2009 07:06:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[First off:  Ok, Ok. I&#8217;m starting to find my happy place with research. Thank you for the comments and suggestions; I think next year will be better. You guys gave me some good ideas. We&#8217;re working on outlines this week, prepping for research.  Among other activities, I  give them partially completed outlines and word banks to fill them in with. I strategically place a few clues in the outline, and they have to determine the hierarchy of the various entries I provide, and fill in the blanks. Like this (the stats are kinda dated, but it&#8217;s a topic near to my heart): Topic: The automobile has become the American Nightmare kills 265,000 and injures millions annually, road rage and reckless driving have increased, better city design to decrease auto dependence, leading source of air pollution,  alternatives to the automobile, main means of transportation, too many people dependent on the car, large SUV&#8217;s: rollovers and danger to smaller cars, more cars and more roads mean more traffic congestion, average car: 5 tons of carbon dioxide each year, contributes to acid rain and smog, leading cause of death and injury, new dangers with 2 recent developments, public transportation I. Main means of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guinea Pigs</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 20:58:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mrC</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I guess the term these days would be lab rats. Maybe Guinea pigs were too cute. Seventh graders make for good experimental subjects too. Kids think we do the exact same thing every year. And being seventh graders, they are of several minds. They think that would make things so easy for us (which is a huge plus), but also be &#8220;boring&#8221; (which is practically a cuss word for them). But when former students come back to visit, and ask what we&#8217;re doing, and I tell them about something new, I get the inevitable, &#8220;That&#8217;s not fair. We never _______.&#8221; (Insert: made web pages, read The Giver, had open mouth quizzes, used clickers, had discussion boards on Moodle, saw that video, made wikis, used the laptops, had homework be optional, etc. ) Open mouth quizzing is a regular feature in my class now, but just a couple of years ago, it was a fairly radical experiment for me. I even told them at the time that it was an experiment, and they were the Guinea pigs for future classes. &#8220;Can we vote on it?&#8221; &#8220;This is not a democracy. It is a benevolent dictatorship.&#8221; That experiment has worked out beautifully. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>True That.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 22:41:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We had an open mouth quiz on chapter 8 today. One class has several boys who have a new phrase they&#8217;re trying out. Personally, I sort of like it. 4) On p127, we get an example of what seems to be foreshadowing. What is it? a) When Two-Bit says that Darry will kill him if Pony&#8217;s really sick. b) When Two-Bit says Darry could be a Soc. c) When Pony says he has a helpless feeling. d) When Two-Bit calls Pony chicken. e) When Pony says he&#8217;ll be well by tonight. &#8220;OK, number four. What&#8217;s foreshadowing?&#8221; The class takes care of that one for me. Most of them laugh, and one says, &#8220;I was wrong.&#8221; (Pony&#8217;s line at the end of chapter three, and a beauty example for them of foreshadowing.) &#8220;Oh yeah. Ok, so it&#8217;s C, right?&#8221; &#8220;True that.&#8221; &#8220;Number six. Darry, I mean Dally (they always mix up those names), right?&#8221; &#8220;True that.&#8221; (me, doing some &#8220;refocusing&#8221; of a gentleman off to the side) &#8220;&#8216;Clark,&#8217; could you focus your comments on the questions? Open mouth only applies if that mouth is talking about the questions.&#8221; &#8220;True that.&#8221; &#8220;And I think we&#8217;re done with that line, for today at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quizzes for Dummies?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 23:05:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mrC</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few years ago, while we were reading Outsiders aloud, I was about to give them my usual &#8220;reading check&#8221; type quiz to make sure they were following along, thinking about what we&#8217;d talked about, connecting the literary terms to the examples in the book, etc. I can&#8217;t quite remember what my inspiration was (probably just to throw them for a loop like I like to do), but I decided to let them &#8220;cheat.&#8221; My quizzes on the books and stories we read are always open book, but this time I told them they could take the quiz, not only open book, but &#8220;open mouth.&#8221; I told them they could talk about the questions and answers as much as they want in any way they want, and decide however they want to, which of the answers to choose. &#8220;You can share what you know&#8230;or not. You can decide whether to heed the wisdom of the group&#8230;or not. You just can&#8217;t lie. You can&#8217;t knowingly tell everyone the wrong answer on purpose.&#8221; One class that day came up with the name Quiz for Dummies. The rest of the periods thought that was a little &#8220;mean,&#8221; so we&#8217;ve stuck with Open Mouth. [...]]]></description>
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