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Terrance on His Own With Course Texts Submitted by daisy on 2010-08-21
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We can trace the impact of such instruction into students\' independent reading of challenging academic materials. A few days later, Terrance reads a press release on a recent First Amendment case while being interviewed about his reading process and comprehension of the text. To begin, he scans the text and responds to the interviewer\'s question, \"Do you have a sense of what it might be about?\"\r\n\r\nSAN FRANCISCO—The American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California announced today that a student group at Deer Valley High School had won the right to hold a peace rally in the fall. The Antioch Unified School District agreed to allow the rally to continue after the ACLU of Northern California intervened on behalf of the students.\r\n\r\nSchools um, schools agree to allow students\' peace rally to be held in the fall. I guess that means that they can like rally together, not make any noise I guess, and like assemble, like the rights to assemble, but you Omega Seamaster Replica(http://www.fashion-replica.com/GoodsSeries/Seamaster-296.html)  have to be peaceful with it, so that\'s what it sounds like to me.\r\n\r\nTerrance reveals to the interviewer that he is making a connection to another text he has read: \"Um, your rights, the First Amendment rights, actually, I was thinking, when I was reading this.\" Terrance then reads the title of the press release aloud and confirms his initial ideas about the text. As he speaks, we hear echoes of Terrance\'s experience reading and discussing the First Amendment in class:\r\n\r\nThat\'s almost like what I was just saying. You have the right to assemble and freedom of speech and things like that. And so, that\'s what they just got, they won their First Amendment. I was thinking of, your, the right to assemble, but it has to be peaceful. \'Cause if it ain\'t peaceful, then some\'n, then the department might take you to jail. Well, you\'ll most likely go to jail if you start throwing bombs and things like that.\r\n\r\nThe interviewer probes, \"What about those numbers next to, um, the title? What does that mean to you? Anything?\" In his response, we see more of Terrance\'s ability to draw on what he knows to interpret textual clues:\r\n\r\nTerrance: Yeah, it actually does. The day that they, that north California school had won the case, or either it\'s the date that they started the trial or started the case for them to win their peace rally.\r\nInterviewer: So, it doesn\'t say anything here about a case. You\'re predicting there\'s some sort of case? How did you know that?\r\n\r\nTerrance: Because it says, -when it says, \"Following ACLU actions, Northern California high school students win their First Amendment victory.\" And it says they won, and then it says a victory, so I guess it got to do with a case, and then this is a press release, so I guess it got to do with the news, and a courthouse and stuff like that, and so. And it is the First Amendment, so...\r\nInterviewer: You are bringing so much schemata to this, because often I think a lot of students who read something about winning some sort of victory might be thinking about athletics, or you know, but you\'re thinking of a victory like a, like a legal victory.\r\nTerrance: Yes, ma\'am.\r\nHaving made a prediction about the text, Terrance goes on to read the first paragraph and think aloud to show the interviewer how he is making sense of it:\r\n\r\nAnd what I just read was about how the students just won the right to have their peace rally. And yesterday I learned that the ACLU was the protectors of the First Amendment, well the amendment rights, all the rights that you Breitling Replica Watches(http://www.kopeez.com/B-Replica-Breitling-Watches-19.html)  have in the amendments. So I guess that this is just what you will read in the rest of the document.\r\n\r\nTerrance read the entire press release, stopping to share his thinking and interpretations, and just as often, to share what he found confusing or puzzling in the text. In this independent reading, we see Terrance drawing on his experiences in class, his considerable background knowledge about the topic, his growing strategic repertoire, and his understanding of how texts work, to make sense of a complex text and to connect that text to other texts he has read. Terrance enacts an identity as a knowledgeable, confident, resilient reader, undaunted in the face of complexity, interested in the outcome of the case, and able to bring a repertoire of text-based, discipline-specific, problem-solving strategies to bear on his reading (Schoenbach & Greenleaf, 2009).\r\n\r\n\r\n

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We Need to Take Pride but Never be Complacent in Our Learning Submitted by elle on 2010-08-10
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One person even said that he\'d like to read and discuss all four of the books during each of his correlating high school years. Between the meetings in which we discussed both the first and second books in Wallace\'s series, a summer passed, and the youth seemed to become more sophisticated readers. As such, they opted not to continue with the series because the Ways to Counter Heterosexism and Homophobia in Classrooms\r\n\r\nPosition your students as LGBT people or their straight allies. They are likely being positioned as straight and/or homophobic Thomas Sabo Bracelets(http://www.fashionthomassabo.com/bracelets-c-4.html)  in most other parts of their lives (e.g., the English teacher who describes to her students the male protagonist in a story as \"every girl\'s dream,\" or the football coach who refers to his players as \"a bunch of girls\").\r\n\r\n1. When students position themselves as homophobic, introduce them to other possible positioning by reading LGBT-themed literature with them.\r\n2. Read LGBT-themed literature with students across the school year in association with a variety of topics and units.\r\n3. Include a wide range of literature that works to serve as mirrors and windows for diverse students.\r\n4. Choose literature that does not just make homosexuality visible, but also shows queer people inqueer communities; young people need to know that being gay does not mean being alone.\r\n5. Choose high-quality, pleasurable YA literature, and involve students in making those choices.\r\n6. Invite a wide range of ways to respond to this literature.\r\n7. Work with like-minded colleagues to recognize and challenge each other\'s biases and to support one another to use LGBTQ literature.\r\n8. Engage in the perpetual process of making educational contexts more LGBTQ-friendly every day. Books seemed to them a bit simplistic. Even though we would have agreed with such an assessment after reading the first book, we allowed youths\' desires to guide our selection because we were more interested in the books being pleasurable than having them teach a particular lesson. (We do recognize, however, that there are now many high-quality and pleasurable LGBT-themed YA books available.)\r\n\r\nAnother way to foster students\' pleasure with respect to LGBT-themed literature is to promote a wide array of responses. Here, we turn away from our book discussion group to other work in the field. Drawing on Erica Thomas Sabo Bracelets(http://www.thomassaboclub.com/bracelet-c-1.html)  Halverson\'s work with the About Face Youth Theatre, a program in which LGBTQ adolescents represent themselves through theater (see p. 116, this issue), we advocate inviting responses that engage the personal through crafting and performing narratives that strive to embody the universal. And, drawing on de Castell and Jen-son\'s research with queer youth involved in street culture, we advocate for multimodal responses. De Castell and Jenson found that multimodal documentation and composition is not only more compelling for youth, but it also foregrounds the expertise of young people.\r\n\r\n

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