I’m pleased to announce that I’ve been able talk with Mrs. Rombach, and we’ve come up with a tentative plan to connect our classes for a video chat in the coming week. We thought we’d give each class the opportunity to create a short skit or song to introduce yourselves–short as in just a few minutes–but we’d like your input on how best to use the remaining thirty minutes or so of our time.
Should we post a writing prompt ahead of time? Write something together? Write what?
Would you rather prepare questions for each other ahead of time?
Or choose a few students from each class to share a piece of writing?
Have something else in mind entirely?
Please comment on this post with your suggestions!
I’m so glad to see that many of you have made connections with students in Mrs. Rombach’s classes in Virginia! I’m drawing inspiration from her class blog, too.
I’ve reposted the most recent blogging challenge that she has shared with her students (with her permission), and you’re welcome to participate, too! Check out the book list and let her know which books you’d be interested in reading and discussing this summer.
Reading fuels my soul, especially my summertime, sun-loving, porch-sitting soul. With just 11 classroom days remaining in the school year, I am thinking about books, digging around the internet searching for books, and plotting out which books I’ll lose myself in this summer. Are you doing the same?
In days, my ordinary reading life is about to go totally extraordinary. I am ridiculously excited (regardless of how nerdy and teacherly that might sound) to stretch out on my glider like a sun-bathing cat and savor every extra minute between the pages of a good book.
As I drove home from work this afternoon, I thought how fun it might be to establish a summer book club. Not the grown-up version that means monthly meetings and hours spent crafting gourmet finger foods. Instead, I envision an online bloggers’ book club. A book club designed for those who love to read–and to write about–books. With that idea in mind, I went to work assembling a lineup of potential summer book club reads.
What do you think? Which 4-5 books should I (potentially we) read this summer?Leave your recommendations in a comment and number your choices 1-5, with 1 being your number one pick and five being your least favorite.
Would you want to read the same book as me, at the same time, so we could blog about it here on mrsrombachreads (and on your own blog)?
Are there any books that you think I should add to this list?
Mrs. Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Girl Stolen by April Henry
Among the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech
Wringer by Jerry Spinelli
Rooftoppers by Katherine Rundell
When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
The Raft by S.A. Bodeen
Top 10 Things You Should Do If You Want to Write a Novel
On an altogether different note, if you dream of following in the footsteps of wildly popular writers like Suzanne Collins (Hunger Games), Veronica Roth (Divergent), or Rick Riordan (Heroes of Olympus), you might want to read author Lisa Schroeder’s list of top 10 things you should do if you want to write a novel. Pay especially close attention to item #1. You may have heard it a few times from me.
Remember to leave a comment with your top 5 choices for a summer book club. I’ll post more about this soon.
We look forward to sharing our work and reflecting on what we’ve learned this year. Please feel free to share your thoughts on the year as a comment on this post.
And while you’re at it, check out some of the student writing, too!
