A Depleted Post it Note Package

Today was a productive day of learning and absorbing! I went back through "Outcasts United" and bookmarked with blue post-it-notes the passages that really resonated with me. I also browsed the inter-web for examples of reading guides that teachers from all over the country have used for non-fiction books. I'm not a teacher and I have zero experience creating study guides or any kind of supplementary teaching materials/handouts, so I looked at a lot of the kinds of questions teachers ask to get meaningful responses from their students. I created a word document with random thoughts and my ideas. The book is definitely heavy, it covers hard topics that aren't always easy to talk about. SO my task will be to break this information down and make students really think about and connect with the content they read. Challenge accepted. Just through reading, there have been a lot of instances where I've tried to put back on my 9th grade shoes and think about how my SING experience could've been better and more interdisciplinary. This method of "empathetic thinking" has helped me to create questions as I go. In other news- I hope to link more pictures in my blog starting with this one!