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Reading = Annotating, Dialectical Notes, Responding, Blogging
I recently introduced doing annotations as one of a four-part response to a text.
1) Annotations - asking students to write down, draw… in any language… anything that comes into their heads as they are reading
2) Dialectical Notes - I asked students to re-read the text, and as they were reading, to find 6 to 8 chunks of text that they thought were important to the text. With these they did “quotations” and “responses” — which I described as extended freewriting beginning with and annotation.
Introducing Campaign Issues
Online Videos by Veoh.com This was our first lesson in a unit about the U.S. Elections. We will be Writing Letters to the Next President using Google Docs.