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
Monday, April 18, 2011
Monday, April 11, 2011
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 :)
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 :)
Friday, April 1, 2011
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.
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.
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