Summarizer – summarize
reading
Objective: Have the group
of students use post-it notes as they read along in the chapter to identify characters, places, and events they come across that take
place throughout the story. Explain that these
post-it notes will allow the student to create a chart or sequencial flow of the story and keep their thought process organized in recalling details. Student should identify chapters and page numbers for reference.
Preparation Examples:
1.
Home with Mom, David and Catherine – Mrs. Bowman sold her home
and is moving in with her son in an attached apartment; a new family is moving
into Mrs. Bowman’s former house. Catherine finds out there will be a girl about
her age that will be living there. (Chapter 1, p. 1-6)
Mom, David, Catherine – go to David’s occupational therapy (OT) session
at the clinic by the ocean shoreline a few blocks away, shopping stores across
the street, and Elliot’s Antiques. (Chapter 2, p. 13)
Mom and Catherine – waiting room at OT session for David.
Catherine sees a little boy in a wheelchair, Jason. She sketches his profile. Jason’s mother,
Mrs. Morehouse, in a disapproving voice speaks on Jason’s behalf that he does
not appreciate her sketching him. (Chapter 2, p. 21)
Discussion
Each student, in their assigned literary circle, are to explain why they feel these main points are important events to know about in the flow of the story and share
in an open discussion. Teacher will lead
the group off with open ended types of questions such as “How so?”, “So what?”
or “What evidence(s) leads you to believe …?”
Cindy,
ReplyDeleteI appreciate your hard work in creating a lesson plan to approach the book we are reading. I think you may have skipped a step and misinterpreted something. This particular Literary Circle is for OUR benefit. We are interacting with the text AS STUDENTS (sorry for the caps, italics isn't working). We are supposed to experience what it is like to be a part of a Literary Circle as students and then reflect on it and then think about whether and how we might use it in the classroom. Think of it as an experiment. We need to try out the lesson before making it into an official one to know what works an what doesn't. Does that make sense?
I am not sure what happened here... I realize that I am a little late on this part of the lessons...it looks like you did not do all the activities as the student? Or am I missing something. I really just wanted you to be part of the process as a student, and I was hoping that more people would join a reading group. Like I said in my initial lesson plan, this has been met with mixed success. Each time I try something new to connect everyone in an on line setting. Since you all do work at different times, sometimes things do not work as well as I would hope. It looks like that happened here. Email me your thoughts.
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