I clearly love books. But more importantly, I love when my students love books.
For one of our must do activities, my students had to describe which character changed the most in their novels.
This student absolutely loved the sassy changes in Hermione Granger. His specific evidence is when she slaps Draco Malfoy in the face and argues with Ron on a frequent basis.
Another student also loved that sassy moment from Hermione.
This activity challenged students to take their favorite portion of the book and create an eight panel graphic novel. I like letting them be a little creative and draw, but still with a purpose. This lends itself to having students apply their quotation skills and summarize their favorite parts.
I love seeing how much fun they have with their must do's.
Today was focused entirely on Greek mythology and I loved it :)
First we went to the Smith Center to see Jason and the Argonauts. It was great! It was a quasi-modern retelling and Spiderman made an appearance :) I love superhero and Star Wars references!
When we got back, we reviewed character analysis and read more of the Lightning Thief, pausing to make predictions, analyze characters, and practice all sorts of great reading skills!
Naturally, I stopped at the good parts :)
They're in the middle of chapter 10. Percy, Annabeth & Grover just realized the Fates are on the bus. Not only are they on the bus, but headed toward the back...
Cue dun-dun-dun music!
We also analyzed different characters with our table teams:
And recorded our thoughts:
I had them refer back to the portion of the text that justified their character analysis. It was an easy way to review the importance of using evidence.
We also analyzed the cover differences between the novel and graphic novel:
Happy reading!
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