Book Club Meeting #5! April 21st

Hey everyone,

The book club meeting RR is due tuesday (the 19th) at midnight as usual! Please post them so our DD can get prepared for thursday. We are reading Chapter 4 (p 91-96). The jobs are as follows:

DD: Alyx (me!)
Notetaker: Alex M.
Connector: Danielle
Summarizer: Emily

Book Club Meeting #4! April 14th

Hello again my lovely lady friends!

Please have your RR for this week posted by Tuesday April 12th at midnight. We are reading Chapter 3 (pgs. 63-90) this week. Our next meeting will be on Thursday April 14th.

The jobs for this week are as follows:
DD-Alex T.
Notetaker-Danielle
Connector-Jennifer
Summarizer-Lutvija
Tech-Alyx

Thanks so much and I will see all of you soon :)

Emilys notes for 3/31

3/31 Book Club Meeting
Bonjour, my fellow history girls! We had a great meeting tonight, with some awesome questions from Danielle. Here are the notes from our discussion this evening.
1. We had a good conversation regarding encyclopedic knowledge and the effect it can have on a lesson and in a classroom. We determined that this kind of knowledge is more than just knowing the definition of something, but being able to understand something in context, which is crucial to content literacy.
2. We discussed if
3. Getting students interested and intrigued to learn - what comes after the hook? How can we keep lessons intriguing? We conveyed some concerns about being able to constantly keep kids engaged in our lessons, and not letting ourselves fall into a "pattern" in the classroom. The best way to do this, we agreed, was to relate our lessons to the lives of our students, even on the most basic level.
4. We discussed the purpose of textbooks, and came to the conclusion that other resources are needed as well. Supplemental information is needed as well. The question is, how do we encourage our students to gain this supplemental information? This led to a discussion regarding field trips to museums and other places of interest, and how these trips seem to stop once students hit high school.

All in all, it was a good night and a good chat.

Third Meeting:March 31st

Hello everyone!

Our reading assignment for this week is Chapter 2 (p. 29-62). Please have your responses posted by tuesdayat midnight! :) (Let me know if you have any problems)

The job assignments are as follows:
Discussion Director: Danielle
Notetaker: Emily
Connector: Lutvija
Summarizer: Jennifer

Hello Ladies!

So I finally found out how to work this new fangled technology. Our discussion tonight focused on the following topics:

1. Nontraditional texts - We mentioned a lot about the Titanic, poetry, fiction, etc. and how it was used in the classroom.
2. Meaningful and memorable contexts - There was a small discussion about how to get students engaged, by bridging students lives and our content.
3. Strategies - We found some similarities between our book club and our text book. There was also some connection to our CPD's.
4. BUILDING BACKGROUND KNOWLEDGE!!! (WOO HOO)
5. The strategies that were in the first chapter received some cool and warm feedback from the group. We disliked some because they didn't seem to work well in a high school classroom setting.
6. K/W/L Chart - love it or hate it? Emily also mentioned how she thought of Jen's (me!) microteaching and whether it would've worked as well in a real classroom instead of a small group of nervous TCH students.
7. Are there boundaries of creativity? Here's the fun part, we brought back the Titanic topic! There was some good questions about whether we would really spend that much time on this unit, how we could implement such an activity in a smaller/ more compact unit, and also whether smaller units deserve some of the "fun stuff" also.

The Titanic was Alyx V. approved. Have a wonderful Spring Break ladies! That is all. ;)

First Reading Response

Hey guys!

Sorry for being so late, I did not think about adding another post for us to tag our responses onto.

So, here it is. Please post as close to Tuesday at midnight as possible to help our Discussion Director in having plenty of time to prepare for Thursday's book club meeting.

Thanks!! :)

Welcome friends :)

Hi! :)
I hope everyone likes the blog I created. Please let me know if you would like any changes or have any suggestions and I can alter it. So to recap from class thursday we are reading: the Introduction and Chapter 1 (pgs. 1-28) Also, although the reading is not due until the 10th, the blog posts must be posted by Tuesday the 8th at Midnight!! (So our DD will have time to create questions)

*All this should be completed by Book Club Meeting #2, March 10th!

The job titles are as follows:

Discussion Director- Lutvija
Notetaker- Jenn
Connector-Emily
Summarizer- Alex

Thanks so much girls!
Love,
your techy <3

P.S....Thoughts on the fish tank? Hover and they'll follow you! ;)