Start asking around for ideas, checking out internet resources, and looking in your C&G book. (I'm also a big fan of talking to librarians, teens hanging out in the YA section of the library, etc.) Usually it helps to have some focus. What do you want to be reading? A book by a favorite author? A graphic novel? A particular genre? Or a book on a particular topic?
The only "rules" are:
- Choose something that you want to read. Everyone should be excited about reading the book!
- Choose something that is rich enough to support all five response roles (this is why picture books are hard to select)
- Not to select a book used in TE 448 (sorry)
- The Golden Compass (fantasy)
- Howl's Moving Castle (fantasy)
- Feed (science fiction)
- One of the sequels to "Uglies"
- So Yesterday (contemporary realistic fiction)
- Nothing but the Truth (multi-vocal/multi-genre)
- TTFN (IM novel)
- The Realm of Possibility (multivocal)
- The Arrival (graphic novel)
- American Born Chinese (graphic novel)
- The Westing Game (mystery)
- Catalyst, Speak, or another of Laurie Halse Anderson's books
- Novels selected from one of the multicultural awards lists
2 comments:
Here's what session 1 groups are thinking: Blue group--The Hundred Penny Box; Green group--Pretties; Orange group--Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants; Purple group--Speak; Red group--The Westing Game; Yellow group--The Watcher by James Howe.
Here's what session 2 groups are thinking: Blue group--The Lorax; Green group--Kofi and His Magic; Purple group--Twisted; Orange group-- Sylvester and the Magic Pebble; Yellow group--Roll of Thunder, Hear my Cry.
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