“The 133 helped me this year helped me become less shy and actually come to school and helped me pass my classes and work up to get out. The 133 helped me to speak my opinion, ask questions. The 133 not just helped me with my attendance and grades but it helped me find close friends that are like a family.” (Kayla)
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What more could we ask for from a book study about empathy, than to start with a student quote as a mission statement? A kid who felt left out and stranded on an island finds a family in school. UnSelfie is a book that can help us apply some systematic decisions to help more students share Kayla's experience!
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As our learning expands, so too shall our Prezi! It's a blank canvas now, ready to be filled with our future learning.
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Discussion 1: The Beginning!
Pages xi -24"But that 'look at me looking at you,' digital craze is spilling into the real world, altering our kids' offline attitudes, and creating the most entitled, competitive, self-centered, and individualistic breed on record." -Borba
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Circle Transcript: Introduction and Chapter 1This original circle is intended to build confidence and comfort. As an ELA teacher, books and discussions are my bread and butter. Besides, bread and butter, of which I also partake... This first circle will utilize the interconnectedness of a restorative justice circle format with the comfort of analyzing text through Reader Response theory. We'll react to the book through our personal experiences, and get into closely reading the text later!
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Close Read! Dialectic Annotations:
Four our second activity, we'll use one of my very favorite close-read methods: dialectic annotations! Each group will be assigned a small portion of pages, and will group up to make some annotations on index cards to capture their learning. Then, we'll present the annotations to delve deeply into the methods of UnSelfie!
Here are the dialectic annotations we'll use to demonstrate our understanding during the close read portion of our lesson.
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Here is the Jamboard we'll use to capture our dialectic annotations. Make sure you're on the correct page, because we could easily destroy each other's work!
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Reading Passages:
Introduction: pages xi-xxi
Teaching Emotional Literacy, Learning to Tune Into our Feelings, and Why is Tuning into Feelings so Hard for All of Us: pages 3-10
What Science Says: How We Recognize Emotion in Others, How to Teach Children to Recognize Emotions, and Empathy Builder - Tuning into Feelings: pages 11-18
How to Help Kids Adopt this Habit, Age by Age Strategies, The Top Five Things to Know about Turning into Feelings. and One Last Thing, pages 18-24
Closing Circle Transcript: ReflectionAs we close up shop for the day, well run one final circle to reflect on our own, and our teammates' work. Our goal should be to engage meaningfully and reflect deeply before moving forward into our study of UnSelfie.
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