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04/19/23 1Prompt Attention
Choice and Voice
Barry GilmoreHutchison SchoolMemphis, TNwww.barrygilmore.com
Choice and Voice
04/19/23 10Prompt 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
04/19/23 11Prompt Attention
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)
04/19/23 12Prompt Attention
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
04/19/23 13Prompt Attention
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
04/19/23 15Prompt Attention
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
04/19/23 16Prompt Attention
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)
04/19/23 17Prompt Attention
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
04/19/23 19Prompt Attention
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
04/19/23 20Prompt Attention
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)
04/19/23 21Prompt Attention
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
04/19/23 22Prompt Attention
Choice and Voice
Investment
Ownership
Interest
Motivation
Better Product
More Learning
04/19/23 23Prompt 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
Course Syllabi
Policy and Programming
Course Development and
Sequencing
04/19/23 24Prompt Attention
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)
04/19/23 25Prompt Attention
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
04/19/23 26Prompt Attention
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)
04/19/23 27Prompt 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
04/19/23 28Prompt Attention
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
04/19/23 29Prompt 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