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Speaking Volumes

Speaking Volumes. How to Get Students Discussing Books—and Much More. Barry Gilmore Lausanne Collegiate School Memphis, TN. Warm-up: Make a List Books in which a younger character knows more (or thinks he or she knows more) than older characters. Our List: Youth vs. Maturity. Other Lists.

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Speaking Volumes

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  1. Speaking Volumes How to Get Students Discussing Books—and Much More Barry Gilmore Lausanne Collegiate School Memphis, TN

  2. Warm-up: Make a ListBooks in which a younger character knows more (or thinks he or she knows more) than older characters

  3. Our List: Youth vs. Maturity

  4. Other Lists • Friendships • Lovers • Villains and heroes • Orphans and adopted children • Stories that include a journey • Strong girls • Outsiders • Books narrated in first person

  5. Lines • Surveys • Get off the • Fence • Grid • Circles • Fishbowl • Brainstorm • Big Paper • Wall Posters • Silent • Discussion • Combining • Voices • Technology • Online Forum • Electronic • Discussion Speaking Volumes:Discussion MethodsLinesCirclesBig PaperTechnology

  6. Lines • Surveys • Get off the • Fence • Grid • Circles • Fishbowl • Brainstorm • Big Paper • Wall Posters • Silent • Discussion • Combining • Voices • Technology • Online Forum • Electronic • Discussion Lines

  7. Lines • Surveys • Get off the • Fence • Grid • Circles • Fishbowl • Brainstorm • Big Paper • Wall Posters • Silent • Discussion • Combining • Voices • Technology • Online Forum • Electronic • Discussion Surveys

  8. Lines • Surveys • Get off the • Fence • Grid • Circles • Fishbowl • Brainstorm • Big Paper • Wall Posters • Silent • Discussion • Combining • Voices • Technology • Online Forum • Electronic • Discussion Surveys • Students take the survey • Class lines up from 10-50 • Discuss: • What do the extremes represent? • Which individual items were easiest/hardest to answer? • What does this survey tell us about the class? About ourselves individually?

  9. Lines • Surveys • Get off the • Fence • Grid • Circles • Fishbowl • Brainstorm • Big Paper • Wall Posters • Silent • Discussion • Combining • Voices • Technology • Online Forum • Electronic • Discussion Surveys for lower grades • Shorten the point range • Read one statement at a time

  10. Lines • Surveys • Get off the • Fence • Grid • Circles • Fishbowl • Brainstorm • Big Paper • Wall Posters • Silent • Discussion • Combining • Voices • Technology • Online Forum • Electronic • Discussion Surveys for lower grades The giant in “Jack and the Beanstalk” gets what he deserves. Agree Not sure Don’t Agree 1 2 3 If I were Lucy, I wouldn’t forgive Edmund so quickly. Agree Not sure Don’t Agree 1 2 3

  11. Lines • Surveys • Get off the • Fence • Grid • Circles • Fishbowl • Brainstorm • Big Paper • Wall Posters • Silent • Discussion • Combining • Voices • Technology • Online Forum • Electronic • Discussion Get Off the Fence

  12. Lines • Surveys • Get off the • Fence • Grid • Circles • Fishbowl • Brainstorm • Big Paper • Wall Posters • Silent • Discussion • Combining • Voices • Technology • Online Forum • Electronic • Discussion Get Off the Fence • Sample statement: • Romeo is never truly in love with Juliet, but only with the idea of being in love. • Students choose a side—agree/disagree • Undecideds may stay in middle, but can’t speak • Discuss by calling on alternating sides • At the end, make those in the middle choose

  13. Lines • Surveys • Get off the • Fence • Grid • Circles • Fishbowl • Brainstorm • Big Paper • Wall Posters • Silent • Discussion • Combining • Voices • Technology • Online Forum • Electronic • Discussion Circles

  14. Lines • Surveys • Get off the • Fence • Grid • Circles • Fishbowl • Brainstorm • Big Paper • Wall Posters • Silent • Discussion • Combining • Voices • Technology • Online Forum • Electronic • Discussion The Fishbowl

  15. Lines • Surveys • Get off the • Fence • Grid • Circles • Fishbowl • Brainstorm • Big Paper • Wall Posters • Silent • Discussion • Combining • Voices • Technology • Online Forum • Electronic • Discussion The Fishbowl

  16. Lines • Surveys • Get off the • Fence • Grid • Circles • Fishbowl • Brainstorm • Big Paper • Wall Posters • Silent • Discussion • Combining • Voices • Technology • Online Forum • Electronic • Discussion The Fishbowl • Sample statements: • ~Harry Potter is too selfish. • Anyone can tap in after a participant has spoken once (and finished speaking) • Only those in the middle may speak • No one may re-enter the circle within 2 mins. • Change statement as necessary

  17. Lines • Surveys • Get off the • Fence • Grid • Circles • Fishbowl • Brainstorm • Big Paper • Wall Posters • Silent • Discussion • Combining • Voices • Technology • Online Forum • Electronic • Discussion Brainstorming Groups

  18. Our List: Youth vs. Maturity

  19. Lines • Surveys • Get off the • Fence • Grid • Circles • Fishbowl • Brainstorm • Big Paper • Wall Posters • Silent • Discussion • Combining • Voices • Technology • Online Forum • Electronic • Discussion The Grid

  20. The Grid • Lines • Surveys • Get off the • Fence • Grid • Circles • Fishbowl • Brainstorm • Big Paper • Wall Posters • Silent • Discussion • Combining • Voices • Technology • Online Forum • Electronic • Discussion Character is right Character succeeds Character is right Character fails Character is wrong Character succeeds Character is wrong Character fails

  21. The Grid • Lines • Surveys • Get off the • Fence • Grid • Circles • Fishbowl • Brainstorm • Big Paper • Wall Posters • Silent • Discussion • Combining • Voices • Technology • Online Forum • Electronic • Discussion Truly in love Get what they deserve Not truly in love Get what they deserve Truly in love Don’t get what they deserve Not truly in love Don’t get what they deserve

  22. The Grid • Lines • Surveys • Get off the • Fence • Grid • Circles • Fishbowl • Brainstorm • Big Paper • Wall Posters • Silent • Discussion • Combining • Voices • Technology • Online Forum • Electronic • Discussion Character is good Gets what he deserves Character is bad Gets what he deserves Character is good Doesn’t get what he deserves Character is bad Doesn’t get what he deserves

  23. Lines • Surveys • Get off the • Fence • Grid • Circles • Fishbowl • Brainstorm • Big Paper • Wall Posters • Silent • Discussion • Combining • Voices • Technology • Online Forum • Electronic • Discussion Big Paper

  24. Lines • Surveys • Get off the • Fence • Grid • Circles • Fishbowl • Brainstorm • Big Paper • Wall Posters • Silent • Discussion • Combining • Voices • Technology • Online Forum • Electronic • Discussion • Lines • Surveys • Get off the • Fence • Grid • Circles • Fishbowl • Brainstorm • Big Paper • Wall Posters • Silent • Discussion • Combining • Voices • Technology • Online Forum • Electronic • Discussion Brainstorming Two:Utopian/Dystopian Stories

  25. Lines • Surveys • Get off the • Fence • Grid • Circles • Fishbowl • Brainstorm • Big Paper • Wall Posters • Silent • Discussion • Combining • Voices • Technology • Online Forum • Electronic • Discussion Silent Discussion Combining Voices Wall Posters

  26. Lines • Surveys • Get off the • Fence • Grid • Circles • Fishbowl • Brainstorm • Big Paper • Wall • Posters • Silent • Discussion • Combining • Voices • Technology • Online Forum Silent Discussion My perfect society would be… The worst thing about the society in the story is…

  27. Lines • Surveys • Get off the • Fence • Grid • Circles • Fishbowl • Brainstorm • Big Paper • Wall Posters • Silent • Discussion • Combining • Voices • Technology • Online Forum • Electronic • Discussion Silent Discussion My perfect society would be… The worst thing about the society in the story is… Combining Voices Create your own utopia State of the school/country/world

  28. Lines • Surveys • Get off the • Fence • Grid • Circles • Fishbowl • Brainstorm • Big Paper • Wall Posters • Silent • Discussion • Combining • Voices • Technology • Online Forum • Electronic • Discussion Silent Discussion My perfect society would be… The worst thing about the society in the story is… Combining Voices Create your own utopia State of the school/country/world Wall Posters Strengths and weaknesses of characters Aspects that are like/unlike our society

  29. Lines • Surveys • Get off the • Fence • Grid • Circles • Fishbowl • Brainstorm • Big Paper • Wall Posters • Silent • Discussion • Combining • Voices • Technology • Online Forum • Electronic • Discussion Technology

  30. Lines • Surveys • Get off the • Fence • Grid • Circles • Fishbowl • Brainstorm • Big Paper • Technology • Online Forum • Electronic • Discussion The Online Forum • My model using Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things: • Both schools/classes read the novel • Teachers post 15 AP-style essay prompts on forum • Students log on and post at least 6 times (time limit: one week) • Teachers assign completion grade for completing postings • Students have a few days to read through all postings • Teachers choose 3-4 of the prompts and give them on the same day as a timed AP essay (students choose 1 prompt from list of 3-4) • Students have the option of getting back online to discuss the essays they wrote, etc.

  31. Lines • Surveys • Get off the • Fence • Grid • Circles • Fishbowl • Brainstorm • Big Paper • Technology • Online Forum • Electronic • Discussion The Online Forum

  32. Lines • Surveys • Get off the • Fence • Grid • Circles • Fishbowl • Brainstorm • Big Paper • Technology • Online Forum • Electronic • Discussion The Online Forum

  33. Lines • Surveys • Get off the • Fence • Grid • Circles • Fishbowl • Brainstorm • Big Paper • Technology • Online Forum • Electronic • Discussion The Electronic Conversation • Groups – choose a topic • Safe and unsafe places • Reactions of townspeople • Characters who change their minds • Important words • Imitation • 2. List of quotations • 3. The Electronic Conversation

  34. Lines • Surveys • Get off the • Fence • Grid • Circles • Fishbowl • Brainstorm • Big Paper • Technology • Online Forum • Electronic • Discussion The Electronic Conversation Allison: but, the time was not come yet; and every time that wind blew over france shook the rags of the scarecrows in vein, for the birds fine of song and feather, took no worning. book 1, ch 5 Jenny: ok…what does that mean? Caitlin: the scarecrows are the aristocracy Lucy: once again the birds are dirty Caitlin: i think Jenny: wait a seec Lucy: no,no,the wind is the scary mean people and the scarccrow are the porr people fighting the revolution Allison: yeah lucy that’s what I was sayin Lucy: and rthe poor are scarred away until the revolution comes Jenny: I think that there were so many times the thwe revolution could have occurred that (wind in vien) that when it actually cam the rich had no idea it was coming

  35. Lines • Surveys • Get off the • Fence • Grid • Circles • Fishbowl • Brainstorm • Big Paper • Technology • Online Forum • Electronic • Discussion The Electronic Conversation • Groups – choose a topic • 2. List of quotations/scenes • 3. The Electronic Conversation • 4. My response • 5. Group Summary

  36. Lines • Surveys • Get off the • Fence • Grid • Circles • Fishbowl • Brainstorm • Big Paper • Technology • Online Forum • Electronic • Discussion The Electronic Conversation Although the barbaric human is often mentioned, we feel that the most important thematic issue within animal imagery is how the poor people are referred to as dogs and pigs. But social class differences are also illustrated symbolically by other images, such as the description of the ragged scarecrows (symbolizing the poor), while birds symbolize the upper class.

  37. Lines • Surveys • Get off the • Fence • Grid • Circles • Fishbowl • Brainstorm • Big Paper • Technology • Online Forum • Electronic • Discussion The Electronic Conversation • Groups – choose a topic • 2. List of quotations • 3. The Electronic Conversation • 4. My response • 5. Group Summary • 6. Formal Writing (Individual)

  38. Lines • Surveys • Get off the • Fence • Grid • Circles • Fishbowl • Brainstorm • Big Paper • Technology • Online Forum • Electronic • Discussion The Electronic Conversation In addition to the obvious use of imagery as a way of categorizing social groups, Dickens uses such symbolic language to foreshadow the coming revolution. In portraying the broken wine cask early in the book, he offers a general statement of “warning” for the reader that is wholly missed by the aristocracy, who, like “birds fine of song and feather,” go about their usual business heedless of the coming turmoil.

  39. Lines • Surveys • Get off the • Fence • Grid • Circles • Fishbowl • Brainstorm • Big Paper • Wall Posters • Silent • Discussion • Combining • Voices • Technology • Online Forum • Electronic • Discussion Speaking VolumesBarry Gilmorewww.barrygilmore.combgilmore@lausanneschool.com

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