Thursday, 10/6

Today in class, Ms. Stromme led the class with an activity called, PHILOSOPHICAL CHAIRS. She reviewed the norms/expectations and supported students with sentence frames for how to share out their ideas. For this activity, Ms. Stromme would put ‘controversial statements’ on the board. Students were given time to process the statement and their opinion about it. Students who support the statement were placed on one side of the classroom and students who disagreed with the statement were put on the other side of the room. Ms. Stromme facilitated a conversation about the perspectives of students and their points of view about these statements.

Wednesday, 10/5

Today students read Chapters 28, 29, 30. See audio links for Chapters 28 and 29. After reading, students were continuing to look at how our understanding (including perceptions and judgements) change when we see or hear Malala. Students were given the task to look at at least two photos from the book. With each photo, students:
1. Wrote at least 3 sentences to describe the story behind the photo.
2. Wrote at least 3 sentences where they would make a connection to the photo, make an inference, share their opinion or how their understanding changes when they see Malala (and not just read).

Read Chapters 28 and 29.
In class, we looked at some of the problems and solutions that were discussed in small groups. During this whole class discussion format, students were asked to complete one more problem/solution example from yesterday’s handout.

Read Chapters 26 and 27.
Today students worked in small groups to address some of the “problems” that Malala faces in her life and story. I provided several problems to address. Working in small groups, students shared out MULTIPLE ideas for solutions to these problems. Advanced groups looked in the text for evidence and also proposed different problems of interest to them.