Set the HOTS On Fire

For you and for your students!

ETAI Spring Conference March 28, 2012Leah Doryoseph

“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be

kindled.”

quote by Plutarch

The Seven Key Components

1. Pre-Reading Activity2. Basic Understanding 3. Analysis and Interpretation4. Bridging Text and Context

5. Post-Reading Activity6. Reflection7. Summative Assessment

Pre-Reading (getting in the mood)

1. What is poetry?2. Don’t judge a book by its cover3. Choices4. Self-worth5. Discrimination6. Immigrants and their children7. Legacy

What is Poetry?

Reading poetry is like eating hot peppers, it sets my mouth on fire.

• Does this poet like reading poetry or not? • How can you tell?

Studying poetry is like ______

A. Your/their turn. 5 minutes

• Each one must write something!

• Read them out loud

• Do they like to study poetry? Why? Why not?

B. What do they expect next?

• Tell them you are going to read a poem about studying poetry by Billy Collins.

• Do they think he likes it or not?

• Read the poem or play a video of it being performed.

Nuts and Bolts

• At some point they need the vocabulary to understand the poem.

• Ask the basic understanding questions from the book.

• Ask if they think we will study the poem the way Collins wants us to or not. – Why do they think that?

• Which thinking skill did they use to answer?

How much time do we have left?

http://youtu.be/jimfmwzd6WI

Introduction to PoetryBilly CollinsI ask them to take a poem

and hold it up to the lightlike a color slide

or press an ear against its hive.I say drop a mouse into a poem

and watch him probe his way out,or walk inside the poem's room

and feel the walls for a light switch.I want them to waterski

across the surface of a poemwaving at the author's name on the shore.

But all they want to dois tie the poem to a chair with ropeand torture a confession out of it.

They begin beating it with a hoseto find out what it really means.

The Seven Skills

• comparing and contrasting• distinguishing different perspectives• explaining cause and effect• explaining patterns• inferring (reading between the lines)• problem solving

What patterns do you see?

box, clocks, fox, rocks, ox, ____, ___

Problem Solving

• Mr. Kelada stood at a crossroad and needed to make a decision.

• He looked into Mrs. Ramsey’s future as far as he could.

• Then chose to sacrifice his own reputation instead.

Uncovering Motives

• Why do people do the things they do?

• Why did Mr. K say the pearls were fake?

• Why did Mr. R bet?• Why was Mrs. R scared?

How does this help us?

THE END… and they lived happily ever after.