Reflection and Response on Reading Assignments and Your Learning Style

Please comment on how we have had more independent reading time with smaller discussion groups.  This feedback will be very useful in planning our final unit on The Road as well as my preparation for next year's classes.

Please don't feel obligated to fill up this blog post with a lot of words.  I'm really just looking for your honest response on how the schedule of reading time, quizzes, discussions and papers have worked for you as an individual.  The more honest you can be, the more helpful it will be for me - and, potentially, for you since I can still apply some of your suggestions to this final unit.

NO LENGTH REQUIREMENT
DUE: End of day (11:59PM) Sunday, May 20

Suggested topics to discuss:
***Please restrict your discussion to how we study books***

• small group versus large group discussions
• independent reading time versus daily assignments
• online quizzes versus paper quizzes
• note-taking during reading
• forum posts and blog writing
• instruction of literary devices
• activities you have done in other classes that have helped with analyzing literature

Slaughterhouse-5 Movie Response

 *I suggest you do this assignment first while the movie and presentations are fresh in your minds*

General instructions: write a reflection on the adaptation of the book to a movie, any version(s) of the movie we have dealt with (the actual movie and student concepts).

300 word minimum

Due: Published to your blog by end of day (11:59pm) Sunday, May 20

Suggested topics*:

• Additional insight/understanding you gained from the projects/movie
• Changes made in the actual movie that you thought worked well
• Changes made in the actual movie that you didn't like
• Ideas you had for your movie that were better than the actual movie
• Ideas other groups had that were better than the actual movie
• The musical choices used by other groups or in the actual movie
• Casting of the actual movie or student projects

*feel free to branch out and write about anything else related to the book/movie