Book+Analysis

Beyond the book report ideas: [|__http://www.byrdseed.com/41-ways-to-go-beyond-the-book-report/__]

Interactive character anaylsis: [|__http://interactives.mped.org/view_interactive.aspx?id=30&title=__] ** ReadWriteThink’s list of interactives: [|__http://www.readwritethink.org/search/?resource_type=16__] Sample lesson - [|__http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/lesson-plans/semicolons-swift-analyzing-punctuation-1130.html?tab=4#tabs__] Can be improved, too - use google docs so students do this work collaboratively, use comments instead of notecards, don’t give them the rules at first but have them derive the rules in a spreadsheet after they chart the different uses of semi-colons, and have them make an infographic of the rules that they’ve derived. class them assembles to collaborate on an authoritative graphic of semi-colon rules with students’ contributions and the teacher makes it with limited guidance