Set the HOTS On Fire

Set the HOTS On Fire For you and for your students! ETAI Spring Conference March 28, 2012 Leah Doryoseph

“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.” quote by Plutarch

The Seven Key Components • Pre-Reading Activity • Basic Understanding • Analysis and Interpretation • Bridging Text and Context • Post-Reading Activity • Reflection • Summative Assessment

Pre-Reading (getting in the mood) • What is poetry? • Don’t judge a book by its cover • Choices • Self-worth • Discrimination • Immigrants and their children • 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 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. • Each one must write something! • Read them out loud • Do they like to study poetry? Why? Why not?

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 Poetry Billy Collins I ask them to take a poemand hold it up to the lightlike a color slide or press an ear against its hive. I say drop a mouse into a poemand watch him probe his way out, or walk inside the poem's roomand feel the walls for a light switch. I want them to waterskiacross 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? 1,1,2,3,5,8,13,___ 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?

… and they lived happily ever after. The ENd

Set the HOTS On Fire