More importantly, however, the book blurbs and the discussions that followed served as excellent book talks. After each lesson, I saw students quietly picking up many of the books on the slides. I pretended not to look, of course.
Tag: dystopia
Identifying Genres: A Lesson Series
In this series, I share one such set of 5 lessons that help students identify genres more accurately. The lessons are:
L1: Prior Knowledge Check
L2: Genre – Meaning and Types
L3: Realistic Fiction vs. Fantasy vs. Historical Fiction
L4: Fantasy vs. Science Fiction
L5: Science Fiction vs. Dystopia.
Where Dystopian Fiction Meets Water Journalism
One way to help students become climate stewards is to model how reading paired climate texts enhances our ability to both problem-spot and problem-solve. In our haste to offer solutions, we may insufficiently consider the root causes of environmental problems. While reading Neal and Jarrod Shusterman’s novel Dry, my students and I pore over local […]
Picture Book-Driven Inquiry: Picturing Survival with Octavia Butler
I’ve been eager to shake up my classroom literature circles. Sometimes, it is easy to fall into a routine rut: assign some chapters to be read, passages to be annotated, literary techniques to be identified. As we read Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower, I thought about what it meant for Lauren Olamina to come […]
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