Session 2 Agenda

COMMUNITY IS THE SOUL OF LEARNING (Grisham & Wolsey, 2006, p. 648)
 Oh my! Do we have much to accomplish TOGETHER tonight!   Let's dive right in!

Required Readings/Other Assignments
[YA] = Read at least two books from the selected list for Session 2
[J] = Ali
[J] = Grisham & Wolsey
[L] = Terms:  Author, Reading Practices, Readings
[O] = Post at least two responses to the readings (primarily focused on the selected YA literature)
(7:00-8:30pm)
I.  Responding to Literature:   What are all the reading practices we use when reading?  What are the different ways we can respond to literature?  


What about the characters in the YA texts you read for class tonight?

• What did these books--these characters--make you feel?  
•  Why?  What is in the text that influenced you?  What elements from your own personal experiences influenced your emotional responses? 
• What reading practices influenced you?   
• What does the literary term "character" mean to you now? 

What did you share in your blog about your personal responses to these characters in the YA texts you read for class tonight?

•  Using Ali's reader response criteria to evaluate our blog posts (Ali, p. 290).
•  What do you need to compose mature reader-responses (Ali, 1994; Rosenblatt, 1938):  determining criteria for our personal blog posts, public blog posts, other class e-discussions. 
•   Discuss TBF "Guest Blog" assignment (Carly's visit next week.)   

II.  Becoming a Community Responding to Literature:  What are the different ways we can respond to literature?  How are adolescents responding to literature today?

Human beings don't need to possess information only; they need to belong to a community.  

(Grisham & Wolsey, 2006, p. 648)

Reviewing Grisham & Wolsey:  Using technology as a means to foster choice, power and belonging.


Several goals (taken from Sherry, 2000; Grisham & Wolsey):

1. [I] want to build group coherence among students.
2. [I] want to share information about the readings with students and have them share information with one other.
3. [I] want students to process ideas about the reading.
4. [I] want students not only to share their responses through threaded discussions about the readings but also through other digitial texts (i.e., iMovie).
5. [I] want to us to build a social environment "created in the electronic learning space...[where] students find a voice, develop perspectives, make meaningful presdictions, connect the literature with other media and estable the motivation to read as only peers can."  (Grisham & Wolsey, p. 654).  

BREAK (8:30-9:20pm)  

III.   Developing our own digital reader response practices using iMovie. 

•   Learning how to use Flip Cameras
•  Conduct initial interview

(9:20-9:40pm)

IV.  Reading Workshop

     Spend time independently reading to preview the TBF/YA reading selections for Session 3