Week 2
This week we’re going to start exploring ways we might use some of the online tools you already know to explore the books and stories you use in your classes. We hope that you will continue to add books to your shelves, add friends to your reading contacts, continue discussions with our Shelfari group (
http://www.shelfari.com/groups/27166/about ) and explore other features on Shelfari and other book-sharing sites.
We will start by reading a short story and see what creative fun we can have with it! Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour,” (
http://tinyurl.com/4c3hn ) written in 1894, is in the public domain and is part of many reading lists, so we thought this would be a good story to use. I find that my students really enjoy retelling stories and episodes from novels from a minor character’s point of view. So, rather than asking traditional discussion questions, think about the online tools you like to use and respond to the story in our Shelfari forum. Here are some suggestions:
- Write a blog entry for Brently Mallard the day after the ill-fated hour. (or for Richard, or Josephine, or the cat/dog/bird/fly that was in the room with Mrs. Mallard)
- Write a series of Twitters (or a chat) between Jospehine and her friends.
- Imagine the speech Louise Mallard’s doctor will give at TED talks (www.ted.com) on heart disease. Provide the text (or better yet, make a podcast or video) of the anecdotal evidence he uses regarding Mrs.Mallard.
Feel free to write the entries on your blogs and send the url or simply imagine the scenario and write it directly on the forum. Have fun…and brainstorm for more ideas!
http://www.shelfari.com/groups/27166/about
The next few days we are all travelling, so bear with us if comments take a few days to appear!
Jane Petring, Mary Hillis, Carla Arena, and Cris Costa
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