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Any creative ways to make the Great Gatsby more enticing to students?
Started this discussion. Last reply by Raman Job May 8, 2009. 6 Replies 0 Likes
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Raman Job replied to dee's discussion Any creative ways to make the Great Gatsby more enticing to students?
dee replied to dee's discussion Any creative ways to make the Great Gatsby more enticing to students?"Just perused Andrew's site...WOW! Most of the technology discussion in our PD centered around much of the tools listed on his site. Will definitely look into making a novel movie trailer and using Toon Doo for chapter reivew/character sketch…"
Chuck replied to dee's discussion Any creative ways to make the Great Gatsby more enticing to students?"Following this thread, rather than creating bogus accoutns at sites, you could use Today's Meet (http://todaysmeet.com/). This site creates a closed Twitter-like chat session in which students post in 140 characters or less each time they…"
Raman Job replied to dee's discussion Any creative ways to make the Great Gatsby more enticing to students?"You might try an novel "Common Craft, Plain English" approach suggested by Andrew Marcinek, also a Classroom 2.0 member. Check out his recent post on www.beyond3rs.ning.com. Cheers!"
"I blogged about this a while back to centralize some neat stuff I'd seen. Blogs or social networks as characters may work for you."
Chuck replied to dee's discussion Any creative ways to make the Great Gatsby more enticing to students?"Dee,
While I have not done this personally, I have seen/heard of examples of teachers using Ning to help students dialogue or interact as the characters."
dee posted a discussionAny creative ways to make the Great Gatsby more enticing to students?
I am looking for some creative teaching strategies to help students take a bite out of the novel, rather than spit it out! Any ideas??
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