Selecting the winning book and notifying the author - 3 views

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  #1 Kirstin Bratt on 20 Jan 08

   

  As nominations are posted for your award, locate the books and read them. As you read, use your reader's notebook to think like a teacher. Look at the books for their salient features, and take professional notes about how you might use these books in your future classroom. To whom would you recommend these books? What is the reading level? The genre? Are there specific curricular or social issues that this book might address? Are there specific literary elements that could be demonstrated in this book? How do illustrations and text work together? Or, if the book is not illustrated, what are the images that the book creates in the reader's mind? Use Lehr's collection of essays, Wolf, or Fletcher to assist you in this reading research.
  
  Once you have selected a winning book (keeping it a secret until the ceremony), create an award with signature lines for yourself, the nominator, and your LLED professors. Write a letter to the author that explains our class project and your award criteria.
  
  Also in your letter, explain your specific reasons for selecting the book, including attention to the following concerns:
  1. Reader response, as an aesthetic or efferent reading, especially considering a reader from a cultural background different from your own and/or different from the author's.
  2. Relevance of the book as an historical or cultural artifact.
  3. The author's skill at developing specific literary elements to relate the story on intellectual, sensory, and emotional levels.
  
  Prepare an envelope to mail the award (including proper mailing address, return address, and postage). Do not seal the envelope until after the award ceremony.
  
  At the award ceremony, you should give a brief speech about the award and some praise for the winning book. The nominator of the book should then come forward to make a brief acceptance speech on behalf of the author. Each signatory will then sign the award. Envelopes should be ready to mail after the ceremony.
  
  After the award ceremony, the websites of the winning books should be tagged and highlighted in Diigo. Each winning book should be marked by a Diigo sticky note that repeats the information included in the award letter.

   

  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">As nominations are posted for your award, locate the books and read them. As you read, use your reader's notebook to think like a teacher. Look at the books for their salient features, and take professional notes about how you might use these books in your future classroom. To whom would you recommend these books? What is the reading level? The genre? Are there specific curricular or social issues that this book might address? Are there specific literary elements that could be demonstrated in this book? How do illustrations and text work together? Or, if the book is not illustrated, what are the images that the book creates in the reader's mind? Use Lehr's collection of essays, Wolf, or Fletcher to assist you in this reading research. <br /> <br /> Once you have selected a winning book (keeping it a secret until the ceremony), create an award with signature lines for yourself, the nominator, and your LLED professors. Write a letter to the author that explains our class project and your award criteria. <br /> <br /> Also in your letter, explain your specific reasons for selecting the book, including attention to the following concerns: <br /> 1. Reader response, as an aesthetic or efferent reading, especially considering a reader from a cultural background different from your own and/or different from the author's. <br /> 2. Relevance of the book as an historical or cultural artifact. <br /> 3. The author's skill at developing specific literary elements to relate the story on intellectual, sensory, and emotional levels. <br /> <br /> Prepare an envelope to mail the award (including proper mailing address, return address, and postage). Do not seal the envelope until after the award ceremony. <br /> <br /> At the award ceremony, you should give a brief speech about the award and some praise for the winning book. The nominator of the book should then come forward to make a brief acceptance speech on behalf of the author. Each signatory will then sign the award. Envelopes should be ready to mail after the ceremony. <br /> <br /> After the award ceremony, the websites of the winning books should be tagged and highlighted in Diigo. Each winning book should be marked by a Diigo sticky note that repeats the information included in the award letter.</div>

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