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Millennial to the bone, the Macy Homeroom is a community of 21st Century learners at Denver Academy High School in Denver, Colorado. Students and teachers are committed to growing our traditional and new age media literacies through reading, writing, and daily interaction with technology.
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T- Tell me something about what you read
EX- Write out an EXcerpt from the book (with citation) related to the most significant or pivotal point in the reading
Example: "My father was crying. It was the first time I saw him cry. I had never thought it possible" (Wiesel 19).
T- Try to understand better by asking a question
Y- How does it relate to you? OR, if it does not relate to you; How did reading this make you FEEL?
EX- Write out an EXcerpt from the book (with citation) related to the most significant or pivotal point in the reading
Example: "My father was crying. It was the first time I saw him cry. I had never thought it possible" (Wiesel 19).
T- Try to understand better by asking a question
Y- How does it relate to you? OR, if it does not relate to you; How did reading this make you FEEL?
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(T) This articles talks about the craze that is the graphic novel (manga mostly.) (EX) "'It's not a children's book,' he says. 'It's a novel, but with pictures. It's easier to see what the author sees'" (Nguyen). (T) N/A. (Y) I like this article a lot.
ReplyDelete(T) This article talks about how graphic novels got so popular.
ReplyDelete(EX) " I love reading these books".(Stevick)
(T) no question.
(Y) It's interesting how intersting graphic novels are.
T = he article is about graphic novels and how they affect reading as a whole.
ReplyDeleteEX = "America's two top grossing movies of 2008 - The Dark Night and Iron Man - were based on comic book characters, according to movieweb.com
T = Why did they have to quote movieweb? That is common knowledge.
Y = It is pretty cool how graphic novels have been accepted into the reading community.