[ISLMA-Share] Battle of the Books

Joni Darby jdarby at oes141.org
Thu May 12 14:25:20 CDT 2016


Have students who sign up for the class help choose the books from lists
that you choose.

I would run it like a book club with small group literature circles.
Develop activities, questions etc. for each title. You could have packets
for each group to follow for each book and have teachers in charge of
certain books to make it more manageable.  Work through reading and
discussing as many books as possible, form teams before or after you
start.  Then run a book battle tournament at the end with prizes.

http://www.battleofthebooks.org/
http://battleofthebooks.com/


On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 1:03 PM, Lura O'Phelan <ophelanl at skokie69.net>
wrote:

> I'm a district librarian and have been asked by our middle school ELA team
> to work with them in developing what may end up being an elective-type
> class next year based around Battle of the Books (to be lead by an ELA
> teacher). The class would consist mainly of high readers and would meet
> 2-3x/wk (they're on a Block Schedule).
>
> I haven't been involved in a Battle of the Books, and I definitely haven't
> heard of it being implemented in this way--but I am so happy that I've been
> invited to work with the ELA team, I'll do anything to make it work! They
> are leaning toward using one of the official Battle of the Books lists and
> resources (especially since it's the first time for all of us), which I am
> assuming are structured more around a weekly gathering of participants.
>
> Have any of you been involved in or heard of something like this? Any
> suggestions as to how we could stretch this out so that students are
> actively engaged each time they meet? So far, the only thing I've come up
> with is using some class time to for reading and notetaking. I figured
> before I begin possibly re-inventing the wheel, I would ask the collective
> brain!
>
> Thanks in advance for any suggestions!
>
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-- 
Joni Darby

Shepherd Middle School
Library Information Specialist
Ottawa Elementary 141
815-434-7925 Ext. 5008
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