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My colleague and I offered fifth grade students this writing prompt as part of our current unit of inquiry - Who We Are. Our central idea is "Conflicts transform communities," and although I have some hesitation defining "who we are" with an emphasis on conflicts, it does make for an interesting lens as we study the Civil War, food webs and interdependence, and persuasive arguments. I notice many of the students personalized the writing, rather than connecting it explicitly to the curricular standards, but I love seeing the diversity of students' responses, so with their permission, I'm sharing some of them here. What's worth fighting for?
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One of my librarian courses this semester was about instructional technology, and I loved getting to try new apps and tools. I have asked my students to use Book Creator before, but I had never made a complete project myself.
I'm sharing this short book, which can be read aloud to you if you use Chrome. I borrowed some vocal talent from a semi-reluctant teen for the complaining relatives in the story! I'm thinking of giving students the option to choose one of the four design challenges presented in this book for a maker exercise this week . . . and then extend it by having them design their own maker challenges in digital twisted fairy tales that they create. It might be a great exchange idea for our Canadian buddy class, too. Digital storytelling is incredibly hard for fifth graders to do well, as it involves so many decisions. Topics, research and content, organization, voice, presentation, and editing all involve choices that can quickly become overwhelming. That's why I waited until the end of the school year to ask students to create a TED Talk, applying skills such as research, organization, and the use of digital tools. Students were invited to choose any topic that was appropriate for school that they cared about. The message needed to have at least one goal: to make others understand, to make others care, or to inspire others to change (take action). Our topics included the appeal of graphic novels, the importance of art in our lives, how people treat each other, and why bees should matter to humans. See some examples below! We don't have great audio tools to easily record students, so even though we watched some TED talks to get the feel of the experience, we weren't able to stand up and speak and get a good quality recording. Instead, students introduced their short films in class and let those pieces do the speaking, and then we took questions and comments afterward. Our revision process included "consultation time" with class experts who offered feedback about messaging, presentation (visuals or sound), and editing. Although the final products contain some errors and places that could be refined, student ownership is strong in these works, and each one has improved from its original version. We are still considering how we might be able to present our pieces to a live audience, but for now, we're excited to share ideas online. We hope you enjoy the work! The Importance of Art You Should Probably Have a Chicken Gratitude Adopt a Dog Why Bees Matter to Humans
I recently created a movie to explain Exhibition to students, teachers, and parents. This was my first time using WeVideo (you may notice the free version tag gracing the upper right hand corner), and I was glad to explore the tool.
I very much wanted to include student interviews and reflections in this film, but access to good sound equipment is still a struggle: our iPads pick up a lot of background noise and can't record soft-spoken students well, even just a few feet away. Next time, I hope to capture student reflection quotes throughout the process. Have you ever been on a long car trip with an impatient driver? He's only thinking about the destination, and wants to end the trip as soon as possible. He resents it if people ask to stop, is irritated by excess traffic, and complains about the highway conditions, the cleanliness of the car, and the fact that they should have left two hours earlier, as he suggested. With a broad set of curricular standards, it's easy for teachers to become like an impatient driver on a long trip. There are billboards (benchmarks) and mile markers (units) along the way, and a lot of traffic (educators) moving in the same direction that can make teachers anxious about arriving at the intended destination on time.  With inquiry, it's inherently inefficient. Students aren't climbing into optimized vehicles with perfect road conditions; they're heading toward a point of interest, and this can involve some wandering, some stumbling, and some backtracking. In our travel analogy, inquiry is like when you see a sign that says "Come See the World's Biggest Doughnut," and the driver says, "That sounds fascinating! Let's go check it out!"
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- Bad Princess: True Tales from Behind the Tiara
- Bamboo People
- Ban This Book
- Because of Mr. Terupt
- Bionic
- The Black Pearl
- Blended
- Blue Jasmine
- Bomb: The Race to Make - and Steal - the World's Most Dangerous Weapon
- The Book of a Thousand Days
- Booked
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- Boys Without Names
- The Breadwinner Trilogy
- Breaking Stalin's Nose
- Brown Girl Dreaming
- Bud, Not Buddy
- The Cardturner
- Catherine, Called Birdy >
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- Click
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- Colin Fischer
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- Dear Mr. Henshaw
- A Diamond in the Desert
- The Dirt Diary - Series
- Divergent - Series
- Does My Head Look Big in This?
- Dog Whisperer - Series
- Drive Me Crazy
- Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie
- Echo
- El Deafo
- Eleanor & Park
- Eleven Birthdays
- Elijah of Buxton
- Ella Enchanted
- Emma-Jean Lazarus Fell Out of a Tree
- Ender's Game
- Enna Burning
- Eragon
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- The Fifth Wave
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- Finding Perfect
- The Fingertips of Duncan Dorfman
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- Save Me a Seat
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- Take Me to the River
- The Tale of Despereaux
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- Tasting the Sky
- TBH This is So Awkward
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- The Thing About Jellyfish
- Things Not Seen
- 33 Minutes
- This Journal Belongs to Ratchet
- This Side of Home
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- The Total Tragedy of a Girl Named Hamlet
- The Trials of Apollo (series)
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- Under a Painted Sky
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- Unidentified Suburban Object
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- The Unwanteds
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- Upside Down Magic
- The View from Saturday
- The Vigilante Poets of Selwyn Academy
- Vincent Shadow, Toy Inventor
- Waiting for Normal
- Wake Up Missing
- The War That Saved My Life
- We Are All Made of Molecules
- We Are Okay
- We Are Party People
- Wedgie & Gizmo
- The Wednesday Wars
- The Westing Game
- Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
- Where the Red Fern Grows
- A Whole Nother Story
- The Witch of Blackbird Pond >
- Woods Runner
- Woof
- Wonder
- A Wrinkle in Time
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- Abby Spencer Goes to Bollywood
- Absolutely Almost
- The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
- After Ever After
- Airborn >
- Alex Rider - series
- All Fall Down
- All the Answers
- All the Broken Pieces
- Allegedly
- All's Faire in Middle School
- Amal Unbound
- Amazing Grace
- American Born Chinese
- Amina's Voice
- Among the Hidden - series
- Anger is a Gift
- Anne of Green Gables - series >
- Artemis Fowl - series
- Athlete vs. Mathlete
- Awkward
- The Bad Apple - Merits of Mischief
- Bad Princess: True Tales from Behind the Tiara
- Bamboo People
- Ban This Book
- Because of Mr. Terupt
- Bionic
- The Black Pearl
- Blended
- Blue Jasmine
- Bomb: The Race to Make - and Steal - the World's Most Dangerous Weapon
- The Book of a Thousand Days
- Booked
- A Boy Called Bat
- Boys Without Names
- The Breadwinner Trilogy
- Breaking Stalin's Nose
- Brown Girl Dreaming
- Bud, Not Buddy
- The Cardturner
- Catherine, Called Birdy >
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
- Chasing Secrets
- Chasing Vermeer
- Checked
- Chronicles of Prydain
- Chu Ju's House
- Circa Now
- Click
- Climbing the Stairs
- Code Name Verity - Series
- Code Talker
- Colin Fischer
- Come November
- Confetti Girl
- Counting By 7s
- Courage for Beginners
- The Courage Test
- Crenshaw
- Criss Cross
- A Crooked Kind of Perfect
- Curveball: The Year I Lost My Grip
- Dangerous
- Dead End in Norvelt
- Dealing with Dragons
- Dear Mr. Henshaw
- A Diamond in the Desert
- The Dirt Diary - Series
- Divergent - Series
- Does My Head Look Big in This?
- Dog Whisperer - Series
- Drive Me Crazy
- Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie
- Echo
- El Deafo
- Eleanor & Park
- Eleven Birthdays
- Elijah of Buxton
- Ella Enchanted
- Emma-Jean Lazarus Fell Out of a Tree
- Ender's Game
- Enna Burning
- Eragon
- Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library
- Escape Under the Forever Sky
- Esperanza Rising >
- Ever
- Ever After High
- Everything on a Waffle
- Fairest
- Falling Over Sideways
- The False Prince Trilogy
- Fake Mustache
- Family Game Night and Other Catastrophes
- Famous Phonies
- Feathers
- Fever, 1793
- The Fifth Wave
- The 57 Bus
- Finding Perfect
- The Fingertips of Duncan Dorfman
- The First Rule of Punk
- Fish in a Tree
- Flora and Ulysses
- Flygirl by Sherri Smith
- Focused
- Forget Me Not
- The Fourteenth Goldfish
- Free Thaddeus!
- From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler >
- Front Desk
- Full Cicada Moon
- The Garden of My Imaan
- Garvey's Choice
- Geek Girl - Series
- The Genius Files >
- Ghost
- A Gift of Magic
- The Girl in the Well is Me
- Girl, Stolen
- The Girl Who Could Fly
- The Girl Who Drank the Moon
- The Girl Who Threw Butterflies
- The Giver
- Go Big or Go Home
- Gold Medal Summer
- The Goldfish Boy
- Good Dog
- The Goose Girl
- Grandmaster
- The Graveyard Book
- Greetings from Witness Protection
- Hachiko Waits
- A Handful of Stars
- Half a World Away
- Harry Potter - Series
- Hatchet
- Hero
- The Heroes of Olympus Series
- The Higher Power of Lucky
- Holes >
- The Homework Machine
- The Homework Strike
- The Honest Truth
- Hope Was Here
- How to Ditch Your Fairy
- How to Steal a Dog
- How to Train Your Dragon Series
- The Hundred Dresses
- The Hunger Games Series
- I Am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to Be Your Class President
- I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
- I Have a Bad Feeling About This
- I Am Number Four
- I Heart Band
- I Survived . . . Series
- I Will Always Write Back
- Ida B
- If I Were You
- If a Tree Falls at Lunch Period
- In the Shadow of the Sun
- Incommunicado
- Inside Out and Back Again
- Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus
- The Invention of Hugo Cabret
- Invisible World
- It's Raining Cupcakes
- James and the Giant Peach
- Keeping Corner
- The Kidney Hypothetical
- The Kite Fighters >
- Knock Out
- The Last Book in the Universe
- The Last Shot: Mystery at the Final Four
- Left Out
- Legend
- The Lemonade War
- Lies We Tell Ourselves
- The Limit
- The Lions of Little Rock
- Listen, Slowly
- Listening for Lions
- Little House - Series
- Little Miss Evil
- A Little Princess
- Locomotion >
- A Long Walk to Water
- Long Way Down
- Losers Take All
- Lost in the Sun
- Love That Dog
- Lunch Money
- The Magician's Elephant
- Maniac Magee
- Masterpiece >
- Matched Trilogy
- Maus
- Maybe a Fox
- The Maze Runner
- Me and Marvin Gardens
- Medusa Jones
- A Million Shades of Gray
- Minnie McClary Speaks Her Mind
- The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
- The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl
- Mockingbird
- Morning Girl
- Morning Star
- Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH >
- My Basmati Bat Mitzvah
- My Life in Pink and Green
- My Life with the Liars
- The Mysterious Benedict Society
- Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales
- Neil Flambe
- The Neptune Project
- Nerd Camp
- NERDS
- New Kid
- The Night Diary
- A Night Divided
- Ninth Ward
- No Summit Out of Sight
- No Talking
- Notes from an Accidental Band Geek
- Nothing But the Truth
- Number the Stars >
- OCDaniel
- Olive's Ocean
- On My Honor >
- On the Wings of Heroes
- The One and Only Ivan
- One Came Home
- One Crazy Summer
- One Half from the East
- One of the Survivors
- One True Way
- Orbiting Jupiter
- The Other Half of My Heart
- The Other Side of Truth
- Out of My Mind
- Out of the Dust
- Outrun the Moon
- Paint the Wind >
- The Paper Cowboy
- Paperboy
- Peak
- Percy Jackson and the Olympians
- The Phantom Tollbooth
- Piecing Me Together
- Pippi Longstocking
- The Player King
- The Porcupine of Truth
- Posted
- The President's Daughter (series)
- Princess Academy
- The Princess in Black
- The Pros of Cons
- The Puzzling World of Winston Breen
- Rachel Spinelli Punched Me in the Face
- Rancho Rosetta Series
- Real Friends
- Rebel McKenzie
- Red Thread Sisters
- Reluctant Journal of Henry K. Larsen
- The Report Card
- Rescued
- Restart
- Revolution is Not a Dinner Party
- River Secrets
- Roller Girl
- Romeo Blue
- Roses and Radicals
- Ruby on the Outside
- Rules
- The Running Dream
- Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
- Sahara Special
- Salt to the Sea
- Samurai Rising
- Sarah, Plain and Tall
- Sarai and The Meaning of Awesome
- Saraswati's Way
- Save Me a Seat
- School of Fear
- The School for Good and Evil
- Schooled
- The Schwa Was Here
- Secret Keeper
- The Secret School
- The Seventh Wish
- Shakespeare's Secret
- Shooting Kabul
- Sideways Stories from Wayside School
- The Sign of the Beaver
- Sing Down the Moon
- A Single Shard >
- The Sisters Grimm
- Six Impossible Things
- Slider
- Sliding Into Home
- Smile
- The Smile
- A Snicker of Magic
- Soar
- Space Case
- Speak
- Speechless
- Stargirl >
- Star Wars: Jedi Academy
- Stef Soto, Taco Queen
- Stink and the Incredible, Super Galactic Jawbreaker
- Stone Fox
- Story Thieves
- The Strange Case of Origami Yoda
- Stuck on Earth
- The Summer I Saved the World in 65 Days
- Surviving the Applewhites
- Survival Strategies of the Almost Brave
- The Swap
- The Sweetest Sound
- The Tail of Emily Windsnap >
- Take Me to the River
- The Tale of Despereaux
- A Tangle of Knots
- The Tapper Twins - series
- Tasting the Sky
- TBH This is So Awkward
- The Thief
- The Thing About Jellyfish
- Things Not Seen
- 33 Minutes
- This Journal Belongs to Ratchet
- This Side of Home
- The Tiger Rising >
- A Time to Dance
- The Total Tragedy of a Girl Named Hamlet
- The Trials of Apollo (series)
- The True Meaning of Smekday
- Tumbling
- Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom
- The Two Princesses of Bamarre
- Uglies
- Ultra
- Unbound
- Under a Painted Sky
- The Underneath
- Under the Egg
- Ungifted
- Unidentified Suburban Object
- The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B
- The Unwanteds
- Uprising
- Upside Down Magic
- The View from Saturday
- The Vigilante Poets of Selwyn Academy
- Vincent Shadow, Toy Inventor
- Waiting for Normal
- Wake Up Missing
- The War That Saved My Life
- We Are All Made of Molecules
- We Are Okay
- We Are Party People
- Wedgie & Gizmo
- The Wednesday Wars
- The Westing Game
- Where the Mountain Meets the Moon
- Where the Red Fern Grows
- A Whole Nother Story
- The Witch of Blackbird Pond >
- Woods Runner
- Woof
- Wonder
- A Wrinkle in Time
- A Year in the Life of a Total and Complete Genius
- You Bring the Distant Near
- Young Fu of the Upper Yangtze
- Zebra Forest
- Zen and the Art of Faking It
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- Book Topics - Animals
- Book Topics - The Arts
- Book Topics - Careers
- Book Topics - Competitions
- Book Topics - Families
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- Book Topics - Journeys
- Book Topics - Legends, Myths, and Fairy Tales
- Book Topics - The Outdoors
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- Book Topics - Society, Community
- Book Topics - Sports
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