9/21/20151 Prompt AttentionChoice and Voice Barry Gilmore Hutchison School Memphis, TN Choice and Voice

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9/21/20158 Prompt AttentionChoice and Voice I. What choices do we offer already?

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9/21/ Prompt AttentionChoice and Voice The Research on Choice Small Steps: Micro Choices The Big Picture: Macro Choices Discussion and Questions The Culture of Choice: Educating for Democracy

9/21/ Prompt AttentionChoice and Voice The Research on Choice “higher on standardized tests” (Kohn) “more likely…to continue working even on relatively uninteresting tasks” (Kohn) Students from high schools whose “essential value was democracy” outperformed college peers (Irwin) There are “a plethora of resources on student preferences” but little research “on teaching students how to choose” (Dunn) Stress is inversely related to how much autonomy and influence teachers have (Tuetteman)

9/21/ Prompt AttentionChoice and Voice What do students read? 1928 (Graves): Shakespeare Nathanial Hawthorne Mark Twain Charles Dickens 1966 (ETS): Shakespeare Nathaniel Hawthorne Harper Lee Mark Twain 1992 (Applebee): Shakespeare Nathaniel Hawthorne Harper Lee Mark Twain 2009 (Wolk): Shakespeare F. Scott Fitzgerald Harper Lee Mark Twain

9/21/ Prompt AttentionChoice and Voice What do students read? 2010 (Arkansas Study: Students in top 10% of reading achievement) 1. Stephanie Meyer 2. Christopher Paolini 3. Harper Lee 4. Elie Weisel 5. JK Rowling 6. John Steinbeck 7. Ray Bradbury 8. F. Scott Fitzgerald Within next 10: Khaled Hosseini, Rick Riordan, Dan Brown, Scott Westerfeld, William Shakespeare

9/21/ Prompt AttentionChoice and Voice The Research on Choice Small Steps: Micro Choices The Big Picture: Macro Choices Discussion and Questions The Culture of Choice: Educating for Democracy

9/21/ Prompt AttentionChoice and Voice Small Steps: Micro Choices Individual reading assignments Individual writing topics Technology use Research methods Rubric weights and elements Physical space in classroom Group assignments

9/21/ Prompt AttentionChoice and Voice The Trouble with Choice For your summer reading, choose one of the following: 1. The Song of Roland (anon.) 2. Morte D’Arthur (Mallory) 3. Le Roman de la Rose (Christine de Pisan)

9/21/ Prompt AttentionChoice and Voice For your summer reading, choose two of the following: Peace Like a River The Bluest Eye The Crucible Moby DickSummons to Memphis The Awakening The Things They CarriedHerland Eva Luna Catcher in the RyeCatch-22 Raisin in the Sun My AntoniaConfederacy of Dunces Fences Age of InnocenceHouse of Seven Gables Walden The Bean TreesGoing After Cacciato The Color Purple Death of a SalesmanSacred Hunger The Joy Luck Club BelovedAll the Pretty Horses Tortilla Curtain In Cold BloodBlood Meridian The Dispossessed Invisible ManBonfire of the Vanities Caramela The Sound and the FuryThe House of the Spirits Farewell to Arms The Sun Also RisesThe Unvanquished East of Eden The Handmaid’s TaleThe Killer Angels Our Town

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9/21/ Prompt AttentionChoice and Voice Why I am writing my paper on the sacrifices people must make for those they love? I chose to read A Thousand Splendid Suns, by Khaled Hosseini, My Sister’s Keeper, by Jodi Picoult, and A Doll’s House, by Henrik Ibsen, because they all have great examples of this theme of sacrifice; and they are my favorite books I’ve read this year. Mariam, Anna, and Nora, the main characters in the stories, could not be more opposite but, each character submerses you into their life, and you feel what they feel, want what they want, and are who they are. And, to me, that is what the best literature is; it’s something that is so relatable, even if I have never had a sibling with cancer, grown up in war-ridden Afghanistan, or been in a marriage of lies. -10 th grade student

9/21/ Prompt AttentionChoice and Voice Student Choice (typical model) Choice of books (from a list) Choice of writing topics (from 2-3) Casual student input regarding deadlines Choice of elective courses (within schedule)

9/21/ Prompt AttentionChoice and Voice Reading Writing Activities Deadlines Rubrics Syllabi texts topics, genres, format use of class time due dates and weights values, criteria, type book lists, class focus Student Choice (possible model) What we learn How we learn Why we learn How we choose

9/21/ Prompt AttentionChoice and Voice Investment Ownership Interest Motivation Better Product More Learning

9/21/ Prompt AttentionChoice and Voice The Research on Choice Small Steps: Micro Choices The Big Picture: Macro Choices Discussion and Questions The Culture of Choice: Educating for Democracy Course Syllabi Policy and Programming Course Development and Sequencing

9/21/ Prompt AttentionChoice and Voice Week OneClasses choose course topic In-class discussion Online discussion Group discussion Survey Teacher proposes book list Discussion/tweaking Contracting Counter-Culture Literature Romantic Comedy and the Silver Screen The Graphic Novel Senior Seminar (modeling choice)

9/21/ Prompt AttentionChoice and Voice Senior Seminar (modeling choice) Week OneClasses choose course topic Weeks 2-9Class Reading Group Reading Group Essay Topics Individual Essay Thesis Statements Group Projects Reading and Writing Choices

9/21/ Prompt AttentionChoice and Voice Week OneClasses choose course topic Weeks 2-9Reading and Writing Choices Weeks 10-18Participation Choices Student-led discussion activities Individual reading choices Senior Seminar (modeling choice)

9/21/ Prompt AttentionChoice and Voice The Research on Choice Small Steps: Micro Choices The Big Picture: Macro Choices Discussion and Questions The Culture of Choice: Educating for Democracy

9/21/ Prompt AttentionChoice and Voice Literature, Choice, and Civic Agency Democracy and decision-making: Lord of the Flies, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, An Enemy of the People When democracy fails--dystopias: 1984, Brave New World, The Giver Personal choices: “ The Road Not Taken,” To Kill a Mockingbird

9/21/ Prompt AttentionChoice and Voice The Research on Choice Small Steps: Micro Choices The Big Picture: Macro Choices Discussion and Questions The Culture of Choice: Educating for Democracy

9/21/ Prompt AttentionChoice and Voice Barry Gilmore Hutchison School Memphis, TN Choice and Voice