This text offers guidelines and suggestions for teachers of high school students who are looking for activities to compliment literature assignments. It is divided into three chapters, each covering a different aspect of learning. Chapter One offers activities focused on understanding the text. Activities include "Friending Facebook in the Classroom" and "Visualizing Text." The sample activities use Fahrenheit 451 but can be adapted to any text. Chapter Two looks at text adaptation. Activities include "Graphic Novel" and "Quilt as High Art." The third chapter involves deconstruction activities and includes "The Soundtrack" and "The Art of Reduction." Each chapters activities include instructions on the process and implementation of the lessons, and a list of needed materials. Handout templates are plentiful throughout. The text concludes with a chart showing the Common Core State Standards met. Annotation ©2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
Instead of asking literature to meet the entertainment, cultural, and of course educational needs of today's youth, Literature Activities Teens Actually Love offers activities that empower teachers to guide students to work with literature in order to rediscover the joys it holds. Through a variety of innovative and highly engaging projects, this book will develop a new lens through which to view literature and its study, with activities that are at once highly entertaining yet encourage higher order thinking skills and strategies. Lesson plans incorporating alternatives as diverse as Facebook and quilting show how teachers and students can bridge the technology gap by finding creative solutions to traditional academic problems. By allowing students to use their technological skills to move from print to non-print assessments, students will have the opportunity to explore the text with a greater degree of ownership over the process, resulting in autonomous learners.
Instead of asking literature to meet the entertainment, cultural, and of course educational needs of today's youth, Literature Activities Teens Actually Love empowers teachers to guide students in working with literature on their own terms in order to rediscover the joys it holds.
Instead of asking literature to meet the entertainment, cultural, and of course educational needs of today's youth, Literature Activities Teens Actually Love empowers teachers to guide students in working with literature on their own terms in order to rediscover the joys it holds. Through a variety of innovative and highly engaging projects, this book will develop a new lens through which to view literature and its study, with activities that are at once highly entertaining yet encourage higher order thinking skills and strategies.
Lesson plans incorporating alternatives as diverse as Facebook and quilting show how teachers and students can bridge the technology gap by finding creative solutions to traditional academic problems. By allowing students to use their technological skills to move from print to nonprint assessments, students will have the opportunity to explore the text with a greater degree of ownership over the process, resulting in autonomous learners.
Grades 9-12
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