Maryvel Firda

@English_Tchr101 1) p. 18 - The quote from Glover and Berry stood out to me for the advice on being flexible in general as a teacher. Writing conferences are a great way to check in with students for guidance on how to teach them.

@English_Tchr101 A5 continued again: similar situations. I don't underplay fiction's ability to evoke a reader's compassion, though, since a good author can manipulate the reader in any way she chooses without concern about "fake news."

@English_Tchr101 A5 continued: stimulate people to help in a concrete way (GoFundMe). Nonfiction like "I Am Malala" and "Night" may be considered more valid stimulators of compassion because they inform the reader of a true situation that a real person was in, and remind us of the many others in

@English_Tchr101 A5: I don't know that reading nonfiction can teach compassion any better than fiction (especially at the young age when we hope that children are developing empathy). Nonfiction can elicit feelings of compassion; reading about the true suffering of others has been proven to

@English_Tchr101 A4 continued: is becoming. I have found a few texts (Beowulf/Grendel I have used; Jane Eyre/Wide Sargasso Sea I have not, yet) that help generate discussion on *whose* "story" do we believe and why? What biases can we find within ourselves to watch out for?

@English_Tchr101 A4: This is a big focus for me this year and I would love any and all advice on how to generate discussion about how to avoid identify fake news (really, to evaluate all news sources) without the discussion becoming polarizing, which it seems all discussion about current events

@English_Tchr101 A3: Literature circles? Reader's Theatre.

@English_Tchr101 A2 continued again: fully as a result.

@English_Tchr101 A2 continued: thought to another, rob us of the opportunity to practice deeper thinking and empathizing. Reading on screens is an invitation to skim and bounce to the next thing, and I don't think it's overdramatic to say that our brains are losing some ability to focus meaning

@English_Tchr101 A2: My dramatic answer is "everything," but we can see all around us what happens when reading is less valued than it was in the past. It is replaced by other forms of media. I believe that most of those forms of media, being screen-based, and encouraging us to flit from one

@English_Tchr101 A1 continued: held ideas, certainly-- but are we as reading teachers looking to change who students are?

@English_Tchr101 A1: I must admit I have never asked students this question. As passionate as I am about some of the work we read in class, it would feel like I was deluding myself if I imagined that any of it was changing who they were. Changing some beliefs, maybe, expanding their previously