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Brynn Allison, <a href="http://theliterarymaven.com/">The Literary Maven</a>, & Lisa Spangler, <a href="https://mrsspanglerinthemiddle.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Mrs. Spangler in the Middle</a>, host #2ndaryELA on Twitter every Sunday evening from 8 - 8:30 PM EST. #2ndaryELA is a weekly chat for secondary English Language Arts teachers focused on a topic. Every Friday, we post the topic and questions on our blogs to allow you to prepare for the upcoming Sunday evening's chat. Thank you to everyone who joined us last year and we hope that you will join us again.<br />
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We'd also love for you to join our <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/2ndaryELA/">2ndaryELA Facebook group</a>, even if you aren't on Twitter.<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span>2ndaryELA is a group of middle and high school English Language Arts teachers looking to share ideas and best practices. This group is an extension of our Twitter chat and a place for collaboration, questions, and encouragement. Feel free to post teaching ideas, success stories, resource links, photos, etc. that will enhance our instruction.</div>
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On <b>Sunday, August 18,</b> our #2ndaryELA chat will be about student motivation.<br />
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<b>The Directions:</b><br />
1. Log into Twitter on Sunday from 8-8:30 PM EST.<br />
2. Search for tweets with the hashtag #2ndaryELA in the search bar. Make sure to click “Latest.”<br />
3. Introductions are for the first 5 minutes.<br />
4. Starting at 8:05 (@literarymaven or @spanglermiddle) will post questions every 5 minutes using the format Q1, Q2, Q3, etc. and the hashtag #2ndaryELA.<br />
5. Respond to questions using the format A1, A2, A3, etc. with #2ndaryELA.<br />
6. Follow any teachers responding and who are also using #2ndaryELA.<br />
7. Like and respond to other teachers' tweets.<br />
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You can schedule your responses to the questions ahead of time using a scheduler like <a href="https://tweetdeck.twitter.com/">TweetDeck</a> or <a href="http://signup.hootsuite.com/pro-ent-na-english-r7t/?mkwid=sDAsRitua_dc&pcrid=44033846494&pkw=hootsuite&pmt=e&cntry=na-usa&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=hootsuite_pro_google_search_usa_english_branded_alpha&gclid=CjwKEAjwlPOsBRCWq5_e973PzTgSJACMiEp20deRUBEuNIc3-ysreF3wIpeNKNT2xjnz9NpEMAnVhhoCvPDw_wcB">HootSuite</a> (but don't forget to use A1, A2, etc. and #2ndaryELA). Links are encouraged as well as using images is also encouraged when relevant.</div>
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<b>New to chats? Here are the rules:</b><br />
1. Stay on topic & stay positive!<br />
2. Please do not post or promote paid products unless specifically asked.<br />
3. If you arrive late, try to look through other posts before beginning.<br />
4. Feel free to just read, like, and/or retweet.<br />
5. Always use our hashtag #2ndaryELA, including in your replies to others.<br />
6. Make sure your twitter feed is set to public. (Also keep in mind that Twitter is completely public – that means students, parents, and administrators can and will read what you tweet.)<br />
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You can also check out a quick video tutorial in <a href="http://www.2peasandadog.com/2016/01/how-to-use-twitter-chats.html" target="_blank">this blog post</a>.<br />
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Be sure to spread the word to any teacher friends who might be interested in joining us as well. We look forward to chatting with you Sunday evening and in our <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/2ndaryELA/">2ndaryELA Facebook group</a>!<br />
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<b>Get caught up on past chats here:</b><br />
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<b>The basic plot from Amazon: </b>Fourteen-year-old Dita is one of the many imprisoned by the Nazis at Auschwitz. Taken, along with her mother and father, from the Terezín ghetto in Prague, Dita is adjusting to the constant terror that is life in the camp. When Jewish leader Freddy Hirsch asks Dita to take charge of the eight precious volumes the prisoners have managed to sneak past the guards, she agrees. And so Dita becomes the librarian of Auschwitz.<br />
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Out of one of the darkest chapters of human history comes this extraordinary story of courage and hope.<br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><b>Why I liked it: </b><i><a href="https://amzn.to/2IBAaQC" target="_blank">The Librarian of Auschwitz</a></i></span>, based on a true story, tells a story of a part of the Holocaust I was previously unaware of. A children’s camp, complete with a school, existed for show for visits from the Red Cross and other international visitors. Within that school were eight hidden books, forbidden for Jews to possess, that Dita was responsible for distributing daily, caring for, and hiding.<br />
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Later, Dita’s time at Bergen-Belsen overlapped with the time period that Anne Frank was there. Both of Dita’s parents die, but she was reunited with her best friend and her far friend’s father after the war. She fell in love with and married Otto, one of the teachers in the camp. Reading <a href="https://www.thejc.com/news/news-features/dita-kraus-the-librarian-of-auschwitz-1.457402" target="_blank">this interview</a> was a nice supplement to the book.<br />
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<b>Classroom application: </b>There’s a variety of individuals, events, and topics, that the book touches on that might be of interest to students for further research, such as Dr. Mengele (Dita is terrified by their brief encounters) and Freddy Hirsch, a leader in the children’s camp. Despite his dedication to caring for the children of the camp, Hirsch was fearful of being rejected by the community because he was a homosexual. It is unclear in the book if he is killed or commits suicide at the time of a possible uprising in the camp. There is also a guard who falls in love with Jewish prisoner and returns for her and her mother after he escapes, prisoners who escape to spread the word about the concentration camps (their story is the plot line of <i><a href="https://www.theliterarymaven.com/2016/07/review-auschwitz-escape-joel-rosenberg.html" target="_blank">The Auschwitz Escape</a></i>), and the resistance movement in general.<br />
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If you are interested in purchasing a copy of <i>The Librarian of Auschwitz</i> for yourself, you can find it on Amazon <a href="https://amzn.to/2IBAaQC" target="_blank">here</a>.</div>
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This #2ndaryELA Twitter chat was all about building and maintaining a fabulous classroom library. Middle school and high school English Language Arts teachers discussed how libraries are used in their classrooms. Teachers also shared how their classroom libraries are organized to help students find books of interest.<br />
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Scroll down to read through the chat. You'll get ideas about check in/out systems. You'll also find out where teachers get books for their classroom libraries.<br />
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Hope you'll join us next week for another chat. We'd also love for you to join <span style="text-align: center;">our </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/2ndaryELA/" style="text-align: center;">2ndaryELA Facebook group</a> (<span style="text-align: center;">even if you aren't on Twitter).</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span><span style="text-align: center;">2ndaryELA is a group of middle and high school English Language Arts teachers looking to share ideas and best practices. This group is an extension of our Twitter chat and a place for collaboration, questions, and encouragement. Feel free to post teaching ideas, success stories, links, photos, etc. that will enhance our instruction.</span><br />
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Last year I had grand plans about <a href="https://www.theliterarymaven.com/2018/08/classroom-community-reading.html" target="_blank">building a community of readers in my classroom</a>. Some of my ideas worked out, some things I started but didn't follow through on, and some things never happened at all. This year I'll be teaching only English Language Arts (last year I also taught math), and I'm just as committed to building that community of readers in my classroom. I can't do that without making sure my classroom library is one that will attract students no matter what their reading interests are. Here's how I make sure my classroom library does that.<br />
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<b>Clear Off Those Shelves</b></div>
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Step one is actually getting rid of books. I know it is hard to wrap your head around building a great library by taking books out of it (it was hard for me too), but how will students find great books among the mediocre or not so great ones? I inherited a classroom library when I moved into my classroom (all classrooms in my school have one since we don't have a school library). I am eternally grateful for this inheritance, but that meant that not everything on the shelves should have been in a sixth grade classroom.</div>
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During the first week of school, as my students were getting to know our classroom library, I asked them to remove any books they thought were too young or too old, or were really beat up. I did this same process myself at the end of the year and ended up with a big box of books to donate and more room on my shelves for new books. I don't use a check out system for my students, but if I did, I would also weed out books at the end of the school year that no one had checked out. As I cleaned off my shelves at the end of the year, I also made a list of any books from series that were missing and ordered them over the summer.</div>
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<b>Get Organized</b></div>
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Everyone has an opinion on genre versus alphabetical for organizing their library, and I opt for doing it by genre because I think it is easier for students to find a book they are interested in that way. My ten genres are: historical fiction, fantasy, science fiction, dystopia, nonfiction, realistic fiction, humor, romance, action/adventure, and mystery/thrillers.</div>
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I've used a <a href="https://www.theliterarymaven.com/2014/07/looking-for-way-to-organize-your.html" target="_blank">sticker system in the past</a> to help keep my genres organized, but I'm not doing that currently because all of the books in my classroom library aren't technically mine. I have held on to a good number that I have inherited. Our PTA also gives us Scholastic Dollars to spend at least twice a year that the school has earned from book fairs, so those books also belong to the school, not me. </div>
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Instead of stickers, I use signs to help organize the genres of my classroom library. They are picture frames (<a href="https://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/30151035/?gclid=Cj0KCQjwkK_qBRD8ARIsAOteukAn2TK-Vwt3P3XzsgeL9DlMFiu4Hc9R-wY9F6vVl9JjIgCMXYhmMTsaAuizEALw_wcB" target="_blank">IKEA Tolsby</a>) with a description of the genre on one side and examples of popular middle school books from that genre on the other side. This year I may also add some bins to keep series or more specific topics within a genre together.<br />
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<b>Spotlight Books</b></div>
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The easiest and my favorite way to get students' eyes on a book is simply to line them up on the ledge of whiteboard. When I add new books to our classroom library, I'll just write "look, new books!" For new books, I also hold book raffles to see who will read it first and did this as well for the one and only First Chapter Friday I did at the start of last school year. I'm hoping to make that a part of my Friday routine this year. </div>
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Other times I'll pull books from our classroom library that I've read and loved, and write a little blurb above the book to spark interest. As the year progresses, you could also have students do the same thing for other students. Peer recommendations are a powerful thing. </div>
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After homeroom and announcements, our students have a WIN (what I need) period for either intervention or enrichment. Once a 6 day cycle, we hold our class meetings during that WIN period. A few times last year, we used that time to share out books we'd read and loved. Then we used the book generator at PickMyYA (which doesn't seem to exist anymore) and the title suggestions on <a href="https://www.whatshouldireadnext.com/" target="_blank">WhatShouldIReadNext</a> to find books we might love. I did some Amazon shopping based on what students came up with and added those to our library.<br />
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Brynn Allison, <a href="http://theliterarymaven.com/">The Literary Maven</a>, & Lisa Spangler, <a href="https://mrsspanglerinthemiddle.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Mrs. Spangler in the Middle</a>, host #2ndaryELA on Twitter every Sunday evening from 8 - 8:30 PM EST. #2ndaryELA is a weekly chat for secondary English Language Arts teachers focused on a topic. Every Friday, we post the topic and questions on our blogs to allow you to prepare for the upcoming Sunday evening's chat. Thank you to everyone who joined us last year and we hope that you will join us again.<br />
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We'd also love for you to join our <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/2ndaryELA/">2ndaryELA Facebook group</a>, even if you aren't on Twitter.<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></span>2ndaryELA is a group of middle and high school English Language Arts teachers looking to share ideas and best practices. This group is an extension of our Twitter chat and a place for collaboration, questions, and encouragement. Feel free to post teaching ideas, success stories, resource links, photos, etc. that will enhance our instruction.</div>
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On <b>Sunday, August 11,</b> our #2ndaryELA chat will be about classroom libraries.<br />
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<b>The Directions:</b><br />
1. Log into Twitter on Sunday from 8-8:30 PM EST.<br />
2. Search for tweets with the hashtag #2ndaryELA in the search bar. Make sure to click “Latest.”<br />
3. Introductions are for the first 5 minutes.<br />
4. Starting at 8:05 (@literarymaven or @spanglermiddle) will post questions every 5 minutes using the format Q1, Q2, Q3, etc. and the hashtag #2ndaryELA.<br />
5. Respond to questions using the format A1, A2, A3, etc. with #2ndaryELA.<br />
6. Follow any teachers responding and who are also using #2ndaryELA.<br />
7. Like and respond to other teachers' tweets.<br />
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You can schedule your responses to the questions ahead of time using a scheduler like <a href="https://tweetdeck.twitter.com/">TweetDeck</a> or <a href="http://signup.hootsuite.com/pro-ent-na-english-r7t/?mkwid=sDAsRitua_dc&pcrid=44033846494&pkw=hootsuite&pmt=e&cntry=na-usa&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=hootsuite_pro_google_search_usa_english_branded_alpha&gclid=CjwKEAjwlPOsBRCWq5_e973PzTgSJACMiEp20deRUBEuNIc3-ysreF3wIpeNKNT2xjnz9NpEMAnVhhoCvPDw_wcB">HootSuite</a> (but don't forget to use A1, A2, etc. and #2ndaryELA). Links are encouraged as well as using images is also encouraged when relevant.</div>
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<b>New to chats? Here are the rules:</b><br />
1. Stay on topic & stay positive!<br />
2. Please do not post or promote paid products unless specifically asked.<br />
3. If you arrive late, try to look through other posts before beginning.<br />
4. Feel free to just read, like, and/or retweet.<br />
5. Always use our hashtag #2ndaryELA, including in your replies to others.<br />
6. Make sure your twitter feed is set to public. (Also keep in mind that Twitter is completely public – that means students, parents, and administrators can and will read what you tweet.)<br />
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You can also check out a quick video tutorial in <a href="http://www.2peasandadog.com/2016/01/how-to-use-twitter-chats.html" target="_blank">this blog post</a>.<br />
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Be sure to spread the word to any teacher friends who might be interested in joining us as well. We look forward to chatting with you Sunday evening and in our <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/2ndaryELA/">2ndaryELA Facebook group</a>!<br />
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<b>Get caught up on past chats here:</b><br />
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<b>The basic plot from Amazon: </b>The Renegades are a syndicate of prodigies―humans with extraordinary abilities―who emerged from the ruins of a crumbled society and established peace and order where chaos reigned. As champions of justice, they remain a symbol of hope and courage to everyone...except the villains they once overthrew.<br />
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Nova has a reason to hate the Renegades, and she is on a mission for vengeance. As she gets closer to her target, she meets Adrian, a Renegade boy who believes in justice―and in Nova. But Nova's allegiance is to the villains who have the power to end them both.<br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><b>Why I liked it: </b></span>I was a huge fan of The Lunar Chronicles and <i><a href="https://www.theliterarymaven.com/2017/07/review-heartless-marissa-meyer.html" target="_blank">Heartless</a></i>, so I was interested to see Marissa Meyer’s move away from fairy tale retellings and into superheroes, though both the Lunar Chronicles and <i><a href="https://amzn.to/2N57h3t" target="_blank">Renegades</a> </i>series are futuristic. Like <i><a href="https://www.theliterarymaven.com/2016/04/review-cinder-by-marissa-meyer.html" target="_blank">Cinder</a></i>, the first book in the Lunar Chronicles series, it took me a little while to buy into the world of the Renegades, but soon enough I was hooked.<br />
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Nova and Adrian (Sketch) are both living double lives, unbeknownst to each other, and each of them hate the other’s other persona. Nova is really Nightmare, part of the Anarchist family, villains with an odd collection of evil powers, like controlling bees and showing people their worst fears. Sketch doubles as the Sentinel, a rogue superhero created from the tattoos that Sketch has drawn on himself. Nova is spirited and feisty. I couldn’t help but root for her as she attempts to infiltrate the Renegades so that the Anarchists can destroy them, but also root for her relationship with Sketch and her underlying desires to let go of her Anarchist past.<br />
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<b>Classroom application: </b>I would recommend this book to middle school students and up, especially comic books fans.<br />
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If you are interested in purchasing a copy of <i>Renegades</i> for yourself, you can find it on Amazon <a href="https://amzn.to/2N57h3t" target="_blank">here</a>.</div>
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<i>Note:</i> The Literary Maven is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com.<br />
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