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Choice and Voice

Barry GilmoreHutchison SchoolMemphis, TNwww.barrygilmore.com

Choice and Voice

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Choice and Voice

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Choice and Voice

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Choice and Voice

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Choice and Voice

I. What choices do we offer already?

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Choice and Voice

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Choice and Voice

The Research on Choice

Small Steps: Micro

Choices

The Big Picture: Macro Choices

Discussion and

Questions

The Culture of Choice:

Educating for Democracy

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Choice and Voice

The Research on Choice

“higher on standardized tests” (Kohn)

“more likely…to continue working even on relatively uninteresting tasks” (Kohn)

Students from high schools whose “essential value was democracy” outperformed college peers (Irwin)

There are “a plethora of resources on student preferences” but little research “on teaching students how to choose” (Dunn)

Stress is inversely related to how much autonomy and influence teachers have (Tuetteman)

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Choice and Voice

What do students read?

1928 (Graves):

Shakespeare

Nathanial Hawthorne

Mark Twain

Charles Dickens

1966 (ETS):

Shakespeare

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Harper Lee

Mark Twain

1992 (Applebee):

Shakespeare

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Harper Lee

Mark Twain

2009 (Wolk):

Shakespeare

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Harper Lee

Mark Twain

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Choice and Voice

What do students read?

2010 (Arkansas Study: Students in top 10% of reading achievement)

1. Stephanie Meyer

2. Christopher Paolini

3. Harper Lee

4. Elie Weisel

5. JK Rowling

6. John Steinbeck

7. Ray Bradbury

8. F. Scott Fitzgerald

Within next 10: Khaled Hosseini, Rick Riordan, Dan Brown, Scott Westerfeld, William Shakespeare

04/19/23 14Prompt Attention

Choice and Voice

The Research on Choice

Small Steps: Micro

Choices

The Big Picture: Macro Choices

Discussion and

Questions

The Culture of Choice:

Educating for Democracy

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Choice and Voice

Small Steps: Micro

Choices

Individual reading assignments

Individual writing topics

Technology use

Research methods

Rubric weights and elements

Physical space in classroom

Group assignments

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Choice and Voice

The Trouble with Choice

For your summer reading, choose one of the following:

1. The Song of Roland (anon.)2. Morte D’Arthur (Mallory)3. Le Roman de la Rose (Christine de Pisan)

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Choice and Voice

For your summer reading, choose two of the following:

Peace Like a River The Bluest Eye The CrucibleMoby Dick Summons to Memphis The AwakeningThe Things They Carried Herland Eva LunaCatcher in the Rye Catch-22 Raisin in the SunMy Antonia Confederacy of Dunces FencesAge of Innocence House of Seven Gables WaldenThe Bean Trees Going After Cacciato The Color PurpleDeath of a Salesman Sacred Hunger The Joy Luck Club Beloved All the Pretty Horses Tortilla CurtainIn Cold Blood Blood Meridian The Dispossessed Invisible Man Bonfire of the Vanities CaramelaThe Sound and the Fury The House of the Spirits Farewell to ArmsThe Sun Also Rises The Unvanquished East of EdenThe Handmaid’s Tale The Killer Angels Our Town

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Choice and Voice

Why I am writing my paper on the sacrifices people must make for those they love? I chose to read A Thousand Splendid Suns, by Khaled Hosseini, My Sister’s Keeper, by Jodi Picoult, and A Doll’s House, by Henrik Ibsen, because they all have great examples of this theme of sacrifice; and they are my favorite books I’ve read this year. Mariam, Anna, and Nora, the main characters in the stories, could not be more opposite but, each character submerses you into their life, and you feel what they feel, want what they want, and are who they are. And, to me, that is what the best literature is; it’s something that is so relatable, even if I have never had a sibling with cancer, grown up in war-ridden Afghanistan, or been in a marriage of lies. -10th grade student

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Choice and Voice

Student Choice (typical model)Choice of

books (from a list)

Choice of writing topics

(from 2-3)Casual student input regarding

deadlines

Choice of elective

courses (within schedule)

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Choice and Voice

Reading

Writing

Activities

Deadlines

Rubrics

Syllabi

texts

topics, genres, format

use of class time

due dates and weights

values, criteria, type

book lists, class focus

Student Choice (possible model)

What we learn

How we learn

Why we learn

How we choose

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Choice and Voice

Investment

Ownership

Interest

Motivation

Better Product

More Learning

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Choice and Voice

The Research on Choice

Small Steps: Micro

Choices

The Big Picture: Macro Choices

Discussion and

Questions

The Culture of Choice:

Educating for Democracy

Course Syllabi

Policy and Programming

Course Development and

Sequencing

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Choice and Voice

Week One Classes choose course topic

In-class discussion

Online discussion

Group discussion

Survey

Teacher proposes book list

Discussion/tweaking

Contracting

Counter-Culture Literature

Romantic Comedy and the Silver

ScreenThe Graphic Novel

Senior Seminar (modeling choice)

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Choice and Voice

Senior Seminar (modeling choice)

Week One Classes choose course topic

Weeks 2-9 Class Reading

Group Reading

Group Essay Topics

Individual Essay Thesis Statements

Group Projects

Reading and Writing Choices

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Choice and Voice

Week One Classes choose course topic

Weeks 2-9 Reading and Writing Choices

Weeks 10-18 Participation Choices

Student-led discussion activities

Individual reading choices

Senior Seminar (modeling choice)

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Choice and Voice

The Research on Choice

Small Steps: Micro

Choices

The Big Picture: Macro Choices

Discussion and

Questions

The Culture of Choice:

Educating for Democracy

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Choice and Voice

Literature, Choice, and Civic Agency

Democracy and decision-making: Lord of the Flies, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, An Enemy of the People

When democracy fails--dystopias: 1984, Brave New World, The Giver

Personal choices: “The Road Not Taken,” To Kill a Mockingbird

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Choice and Voice

The Research on Choice

Small Steps: Micro

Choices

The Big Picture: Macro Choices

Discussion and

Questions

The Culture of Choice:

Educating for Democracy

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Choice and Voice

Barry GilmoreHutchison SchoolMemphis, TNwww.barrygilmore.com

Choice and Voice