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Students working to become power users on Youth Voices engage in discussions about the articles or books they are reading.
Both of these tasks asks the student to quote and cite from a text, and to do one of the following:
-- Make connections.
-- Ask questions and speculate.
-- Track important elements in the text.
-- Compare this text with other things.
By having conversations about their reading, students are practicing the habits they need to be successful in any academic discipline or in a profession.
Read half-way through your book, and stop 2 or 3 times to write about your book in the same Doc:
Use Guides: Responding to Lit. Post this as a Discussion.
Your goal is to finish your book or article(s) before the 3 Tasks of this Challenge are completed.
You can do this in one sitting or you can do it 4 times for thirty minutes each time or 6 times for twenty minutes each. But it has to be focused, uninterrupted reading. No multi-tasking during your reading time.
After you've read your book or your article for at least 2 hours open a Google Document and plan to write for about 30 minutes.
Begin by freewriting about your text. Write non-stop for 5 or ten minutes about anything that comes into your head about your book or article.
Then turn to the Literature Response Guides or to this guide, "General Response to a Non-Fiction Article.
Share your Doc with a teacher and a couple of peers, and ask them to make a couple of comments. Do not publish it on Youth Voices yet until you have read half of your book and written about it 2 or 3 times. Also make your document public.
In the Post Comment button here (on P2PU) add a link to your discussion post on Youth Voices. Do this before you click Yes, I'm done .
Although it's important to understand what the literature guides are asking for, we encourage students to break out of the overly structured guides and create your own kinds of response.
However, we do ask you to keep in mind the following guidelines:
| "Shooter" might leave you feeling anxious | Pages 53-62 Shooter by Walter Dean Myers might leave a reader feeling anxious to know what happens next, because Len started to act kind of creepy when he put turtles in the bags that him, Carla and... | Added on Sunday, December 16, 2012 - 15:06, with 0 comment(s) |
