OK, I've been doing the assigned reading, I swear I have. But as I read, specifically from the textbook and A Family of Readers, I can't think of questions to pose for a whole class discussion. Are the questions supposed to be based on reader response, like, “How did you feel about what the author said about...?” or “How did you interpret this statement?” Are they supposed to be based on how we will apply the information from the reading to our teaching, like “Will you try any of these poetry techniques in your classroom?” or “How will you address poetry as a teacher?” Or are the questions supposed to challenge the author? I have no examples for this at the moment...
With, A Family of Readers, I appreciate what Alice Schertle says about poetry, but no questions come to mind. With, The Joy of Reading, I make notes on the margins and I got inspired to try a few things in my English classroom next year, but still no questions came to mind. In the texts, I mostly write ideas that I would like to incorporate into my classroom, like the teacher who posted literary elements on the wall and asked students to provide examples when they found them, or student generated word list that looked at the emotion, imagery and music of poetry. I feel inspired to start class with a poem and encourage students to find poems at home and bring them in to share with the class, but I have no questions...
So, as I was reading, I tried to think about questions from our previous class sessions, they were all pretty good, except for mine :) But I have forgotten them. So, if anyone has any suggestions, I'd appreciate the help. Until then, I'll start writing down questions posed in class tomorrow and Wednesday and hope I figure it out.
