I have 2A for certain. This is massively good news as I have been really unhappy about the prospect of teaching lockstep grade level sophmore English. This means freedom for my curriculum (uhm, within basic constraints of course). This means I get to push hard in a class full of fairly capable kids.
I can work with this. Lit circles. We are totally going to do lit circles. Oh the books I can make them read!
what is a lit circle?
The kids are divided into groups of 3-4 then they have to choose a book from a pre-selected list. Then they have to read the book as a group while taking fairly generic tests on the content. Then they teach the book to the class. It’s a way of exposing a class to a wide array of information from books without having to read all of them. It isn’t the same as reading all of the books, but some exposure is better than none.
Sounds cool – I was about to ask that question myself.
So what kind of books do these kids get?
Whatever I select. And no, I haven’t selected them yet as I’ve been thinking about assigning them for oh maybe, 30 minutes.
Yay! You win.
What does 2A mean? Is that the college prep class?
Everything is “college prep.” It’s the honors/advanced class.