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A New Way to Present Booklists

Author(s): Ida J. Appel and Marion P. TurkishSource: Journal of Reading, Vol. 20, No. 7 (Apr., 1977), pp. 616-617Published by: on behalf of theWiley International Reading AssociationStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/40009844Accessed: 09-08-2014 18:55 UTC

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Group Composition

Opento

Suggestion

• In order to provide a newexperience for combining reading,writing, and cooperation in theclassroom, I devised a system forgroup composition work.

The first step is to read a series ofarticles and stories, all covering thesame general topic area. Next,distribute the group composition

sheets. One exampleis

givenhere.

The technique provided someexcellent written work as well assome friendly cooperation amongclassmates. It was rewarding to seesome nonwriters actively involved inactual construction of written prose.

Group Composition: SuperstitionSelect 3 people from class to work withyou on the construction and writing of thefollowing three paragraph composition.One paper for all 4 members.

Directions: Mutually agree on onesuperstition held in common belief today.

1) Tell what your superstition isandgivetwo or three examples of its practice oruse in society.

2) Explain how you believe such asuperstition came into being. This neednot be factual- use your collectiveimaginations to construct a story. Usecolorful events, examples, incidents tosupport your theory.

3) Write a brief conclusion summarizingyour ideas.

Papers will be graded for: 1 ability o readand follow the above directions; 2)originality and thought of ideas; 3)spelling, grammar, and sentencestructure.

Be sure names of all group membersappear on the one final, revised copy thatis turned in. All group members willreceive the same one grade for thecollective composition.

Elise H. BroeningReading Teacher

Johnson City Senior High SchoolJohnson City, New York

TV Inservice Training• South Carolina's Office of AdultEducation uses television forinservice training sessions. Programsmay be broadcast either live or tapedover the state's educational TVstations, for reception on either openor closed circuit systems in schoolsor even in teachers' homes. Oncetaped, demonstrations for adulteducation teachers can also bedistributed to local school authoritiesfor use in their inservice

programs.Half-hour videotapes can serve asspringboards for follow-up teamplanning discussions, made easier byhandouts containing an abstract ofthe tape with highlights for reaction.Sample topics include: organizationof adult education programs, thelanguage experience approach,materials on coping skills,individualized reading, learningaides, communication contracts,

reading labs,resource

kits, IPI,diagnosis and prescription, andusing the newspaper and othercommunity resources to preparediagnostic learning packages.

For more information, write theSouth Carolina State Department ofEducation, Columbia, SouthCarolina 29201, U.S.A.

Barbara Y. AshleyReading Consultant

South Carolina Officeof Adult Education

A New Way toPresent Booklists• If your adolescent students areturned off by traditional booklists, trythis novel technique for creating

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interest in new books. Thirty-twotities are buried within the text of thisiove story with teenage characters.

Whichaway to Turn?

I am Claudia, Doc Dudley'sdaughter. I have an undecided heart.

My boyfriend Peter is known asMillie's boy.

My brother Stevie and my father donot approve of Peter because of hishunger for racing. My mother is nottaking sides.

Peter has a hot rod which he drivesfifty-two miles to terror.

One day as Peter and I took a walk

down Apple's Way, I brought up thesubject of the dangers involved in hisracing. He said angrily, I am free,alone and going to race despite yourobjection and your family'sobjections. I will not be trapped. Ihave been asked to join theSeventeenth-Street Gang so that Ican participate in the Gunshot GrandPrix. Be a cool cat and stop buggingme.

I pleaded with him saying, Mydarling, my hamburger, if you pursuethis dangerous life, you will journeyall alone. I don't want you to travel inthe valley of the shadow of death. Youthink wild and you are the wild one.You have a talent for trouble. Do youexpect to be a hero? A hero ain'tnothing but a sandwich.

All right, he yelled. Don't cry forme. It's like this cat, there comes atime to choose.

We decided to part for a year and ableak black horizon faced me onthe way home. I had a year to grow.

Maybe it's not the end of the world.Often I feel my heart ache and I mustremember to say, Don't look and itwon't hurt.

Titles

WhichawayGlendon and Kathryn Swarthout

Doc Dudley's DaughterElizabeth H. Friermood

ClaudiaBarbara Wallace

Undecided HeartNancy Faulkner

PeterAnne Holm

Millie's BoyRobert Newton Peck

Brother StevieEleanor Clymer

Hunger for RacingJames

DouglasTaking SidesNorma Klein

Hot RodHenry Felsen

Fifty-Two Miles to TerrorRuth and Robert Carlsen

Apple's WayRobert Weverka

/ Am Free, Alone and GoingChristopher Leach

TrappedRoderic Jeffies

The Seventeenth-Street GangEmily C. Neville

The Gunshot Grand PrixDouglas RutherfordBe a Cool Cat

Frank BonhamMy Darling, My Hamburger

Paul ZindelJourney All Alone

Dolores HarrisonValley of the Shadow

Janet HickmannYou Think Wild

Arnold MadisonThe Wild One

Bruce CassidyA Talent for Trouble

Jane HinchmanA Hero Ain't Nothing But a SandwichAlice Childress

Don't Cry for MeClara Jarunkova

It's Like This CatEmily C. Neville

A Time to ChooseRichard Parker

Black HorizonPhillip A. Guy

The Way HomeJoan Phipson

A Year to GrowFelice Holman

It's Not the End of the WorldJudy BlumeDon't Look and It Won't Hurt

Richard Peck

Ida J. AppelLong Island University

Teacher Education DepartmentBrooklyn, New York

Marion P. TurkishWilliam Paterson College

Reading and Language Arts Dept.Wayne, New Jersey

Open to Suggestion 617

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