Here are a couple more good examples from our 120 Seconds presentations. My servants (sorry, student assistants) are typing up the list of books we heard from, so I’ll be able to post it this weekend.
Here’s Deep M. reading The Cay
And Dot (I love having a Dorothy in my class; so old school!) reading a new teen cult classic (whose author is from my neck of the woods, as Dot points out). This book, Thirteen Reasons Why
A few years ago, while we were reading Outsiders aloud, I was about to give them my usual “reading check” type quiz to make sure they were following along, thinking about what we’d talked about, connecting the literary terms to the examples in the book, etc. I can’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 “cheat.” 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 “open mouth.” 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. “You can share what you know…or not. You can decide whether to heed the wisdom of the group…or not. You just can’t lie. You can’t knowingly tell everyone the wrong answer on purpose.” One class that day came up with the name Quiz for Dummies. The rest of the periods thought that was a little “mean,” so we’ve stuck with Open Mouth. [...]
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