Week+5+Hangout

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Slides = = =1st Half -- So Is Nonfiction Literature's Neglected Stepchild?= Demo of Intra-Act -- Intra-Act Board

Creative Nonfiction see The Change Project -- includes speculative fiction and creative nonfiction

The Change Project. . . speculative fiction for exploring issues of social justice. ..

Share nonfiction books -- creative nonfiction? critical lens?

CCI for Students on Belonging
[|Planning site]

Improving Peer Feedback with Public Critique
[|Ron Berger's Story of Austin's Butterfly] -- "Be kind, be helpful, be specific." A teacher's response to Ron's video . . . and more resources on public critique

Cultivating Creativity and Critical Thinking
[|Strategies for Scaffolded Reading Experiences (for our Belonging CCI)]

[|Intra-Act]. . . a perspective-taking (crucial element of critical thinking -- ([|see Brookfield's Teaching for Critical Thinking)] strategy [|Bethany introduced]. [|Discussion Strategies to Encourage Critical Thinking] . . . (in process)

Pedagogical Patterns for Critical Thinking
[|Reading Apprenticeship] -- A model that integrates many content area reading strategies to scaffold literacy and literature instruction so students become autonomous, critical thinkers. Scaffolding for success is vital. media type="custom" key="26249838" Paideia Seminar Approach -- [|The National Paideia Institute] defines a Socratic seminar as "//a collaborative, intellectual dialogue facilitated with open-ended questions about a text." The Paideia Seminar Approach includes a Pre-During-Post seminar activity.// media type="custom" key="26249830"

The Cost of War -- Creative writing meets nonfiction for middle schoolers. . . media type="custom" key="26250716"

Empty Bowls -- Beautiful CCI with a real-world product that gives back to the community. Asheville Middle's Empty Bowls project follows the Paideia Project model with an introductory seminar, inquiry, and then concluding seminar. media type="custom" key="26249728"

[|Encouraging Teachers to Teach Creatively] -- Haviland

Third Half: Wrapping Up
Bookhenge Diigo Group -- for curation

Feedback on Tonight's Google Hangout
[|WallWisher . . .]

End-of-Session Check-Off Sheet
(See Schedule-At-A-Glance)

[| Assessment Survey]