Teamwork!
“Hey, what’s the genre? What’s the proof it IS that genre? What event made that book a great book? Did you agree with the ending? How would you modify it to improve it and why? Can you share a cultural connection? Explain how you connect a Hawaiian value to the main character. How would the perspective change if the book was written from another character’s point of view, Can you connect the mana’o nui (big idea) to an ‘olelo noe’au?”. These are some of the student generated questions floating around our class as students share books with each other & practice using higher level thinking skills! Wow, can you feel the teamwork as students help each other s-t-r-e-t-c-h their thinking!
Students creating their own thinking/questioning skills key chain which include cultural-based questions
and having FUN too!
Congrats to the 18 students who have hit GENRE GOLD this trimester! That is a huge increase from 10 at trimester #1’s end. Students: Can you feel a real-life math lesson on analyzing data coming? 🙂
Genre Gold! Hiki No!