We started today's class with 15 minutes of reading from free-choice or class books. Everyone then recorded their reading progress on one of our reading tracking sheets. This started a new reading section which will run from 11/18 - 11/26.
Next, we began taking a look at writing good book reviews. This is going to prepare us for writing book reviews that will be available to people looking for books here in our library at the high school. A student in one of the technology classes will be organizing a web site of reviews that will be accessible to library patrons via QR codes that we will put on the book's binding.
To get a sense for what makes a good review. I handed out some reviews from Amazon.com. We are going to be taking a look at the official, editorial reviews and the top-rated reader-submitted reviews. We are looking at both of these since we went to have the "official" editorial voice and approach to reviews, but we also want to know what makes these reviews popular (the top-rated reviews).
In class today, we looked at the editorial reviews and noted key features on the review comparison sheet that most (though not necessarily all) of the reviews seemed to have.
Homework:
Read for at least two hours for this reading section (11/18 - 11/26) from your free choice book.
