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June 05, 2014

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3 Quick Things: MLA Hyperdoc, Fake News Review, & You'd Be Mine

In this week's "3 Quick Things," I kick of 2019 with two reviews of soon-to-be published YA titles and share a hyperdoc review of MLA 8 citations. MLA 8 Hyperdoc Librarians, is there anything worse than a dry lesson on the ins and outs of MLA formatting (or APA, for that matter)? After working with just about every English class on correctly citing their sources last year, I came to a point where I. Just. Could. Not. Do. It. I could not stand in front of a class, showing off the rules and practicing with examples while the vast majority of students stared at me with glazed-over expressions. I knew that my teachers wanted support in that area, since it is such a tough part of research for students, but I didn't feel like my instruction was effective in getting students to understand the purpose or the method of correctly citing sources. With that in mind, I created the original MLA 8 Hyperdoc with one of my amazing co-teaching partners, Amy Wolk (@aewol...

3 Quick Things: Serial, Google Draw, & An Ember in the Ashes

In this week's "3 Quick Things" post, I explore an app-smashing/genre-bending lesson idea I'm working on, discuss the power of Google Draw, and review the excellent An Ember in the Ashes. Serial, the Lesson Plan van der Chijs, Marc. "Logo of the world's #1 podcast: Serial." Flickr, 3 December 2014. https://www.flickr.com/photos/chijs/15749967517. So, I tend to have my best ideas either in the shower or while drying my hair (who doesn't, right?). I've been late to the party in listening to the Serial podcast, but I tore through the first season over the summer and really loved the way it built suspense and blended fact with great storytelling. I knew that I wanted to get it into some classrooms this year, and over the sounds of the hairdryer, I had a brainstorm--what if we merged a study of Serial with Banned Books Week? Thus, a collaboration with our 11th grade AP Language teacher was born. The gist of the assignment is sketched o...

Choice Novel Stations

I just had the most fun with one of my favorite cooperating teachers, Amy Wolk , setting up choice novel stations! We have been collaborating on ways to get her regular-level juniors, who largely identify as non-readers, matched with the perfect book, and I think we came up with a winner with this activity. Our idea was to have students touch as many books as possible; however, the traditional "book tasting" and "speed dating" were out because many of her students had done those activities with me in their freshman or sophomore years. With that in mind, I set off on a Pinterest hunt for new activities to get students engaging with all types of texts. While I initially got frustrated with finding only super short activities, I eventually landed on using those concepts in a station set-up. Check out the ideas below! Setting Up To make the stations work, we created a worksheet with simple guiding questions that would help students focus on the six diffe...

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