Unpacking Passages

If you dug the idea of using Quote Analysis, or if you teach The Great Gatsby, you'll want to see the Unpacking Passages pages over at TeachEng.us.

What I like about Ben Davis' approach is that he created an acronym which would better help students remember the steps. Even this, however, needed some fine tuning and some scaffolding, which Ben describes in an earlier post.

Okay, if you still haven't clicked onto that blog, one more thing you'll dig is the presentation of the documents there, as facilitated by Issuu. If you're a blogger, or if you have a classroom site, you'll appreciate the cool format provided by this free application.

Interested in more ways to organize student note taking? Check out my recent post on Graphic Organizers over at Teaching that Sticks.