https://padlet.com/bb49/p7l7yqm3wzot Please read my entry and follows the directions to respond. en-us 2017-06-12 16:30:32 UTC 2023-02-14 02:03:40 UTC hello@padlet.com bb49 https://padlet.com/bb49/p7l7yqm3wzot/wish/176127678 This chapter of the text discusses the complexity of young adolescents, particularity those students ages 11-14. As they emerge from reading elementary texts, they are caught in between these plots and those of older adolescence. Providing these students with developmentally appropriate texts and ones in which they want to read can be difficult but is imperative in our classrooms. Instruction also needs to be tailored to these students and may include activities such as drama and journal writing.

Directions:
1. Select a text that would be appropriate for this age group. Please include the title, author, and a picture of the text.
2. Explain why you chose this text.
3. Briefly discuss how you would use this text in a classroom and/or what activities you might use to make the text accessible to students.

Have fun! ]]> 2017-06-12 16:33:43 UTC https://padlet.com/bb49/p7l7yqm3wzot/wish/176127678 vlb20 https://padlet.com/bb49/p7l7yqm3wzot/wish/176201606 I teach kindergarten, so I am not familiar with many books for this age range.  However, in researching books for the middle school age group, I noticed many books dealing with death, murder, suicide, kidnapping, ghosts/supernatural.  Some of the descriptions scared me!  And then I found this story about an unlikely 11 year old hero.  I think boys would relate to this book, and the fact that it happened the day of 9/11 provides opportunities for historical research and study of the numerous heroes who were reported in the media.  Character's journal reflections, written the day of the disaster would be  appropiate, or writing newspaper articles for 9/11, but inserting his act of heroism would be interesting and give students a point of reference.
Have any of you read this book?
It looks good!]]> 2017-06-13 07:05:40 UTC https://padlet.com/bb49/p7l7yqm3wzot/wish/176201606 emuldoon https://padlet.com/bb49/p7l7yqm3wzot/wish/176266430 I don't have a class yet, so I haven't taught literature. I do have a daughter who just finished 6th grade, and she raved about The Night Gardener by Jonathan Auxier. Like Vicki mentioned in her post, this one is scary too!  The frightening themes of good vs. evil, cowardice vs. courage, and desires vs. wants allow readers to work out these opposing ideas in the comforting pages of a book without having to grapple with them in real life. I chose this text because , in my daughter's words, this book "has a cool twist, a good plot, good characters, and is creepy with dead bodies." Apparently, 2 orphans who left Ireland due to the potato famine are looking for jobs. They find an old house (with a scary reputation and a black tree growing into the walls) and work as servants for the people who live there. Storytelling is woven throughout the book as different characters use stories to mask worry or tell of the events surrounding the old Windsor house. The stories present lessons of greed, needs, and the destructive nature of addiction. Literature circles surrounding this book could give readers a great opportunity to discuss the themes of the book and consider the difference between truth, stories, and lies. This sounds like such an interesting book with many levels and appeals to students who like a bit of a scare. I guess that's why the Goosebumps books are so popular! 

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