INTO YOUR HANDS
This image came up in my Facebook feed today and it took me back a couple of years. I had a wonderful novel study unit of work in my Year Eight English class. This unit of work always started in Term 2 of the school year. I normally divided the class in six Guided Reading Groups and at the start of the term placed six different novels at the front of the class and then gave a brief synopsis of each novel. Each Guided Reading Group consisted of six students and they then had to come to some sort of consensus within the group, and together, choose the novel that they wanted to study. One particular year I was lucky enough to have the top year eight English class and they always reminded me ... I hesitate to say that ... but a group of thoroughbreds at the gates, raring to go! The group just in front of my teacher's table worked with a wonderful novel " The Ring" by Tania Roxborough. Right at the start of the novel study I normally handed out a Bloom's taxonomy task whi...
