Windsor 7: Choosing Hero/Heroine Stories

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Windsor 7 students were in the library with their Language Arts teacher, Mrs. Alvarez today. Each student was to select a “hero/heroine story” to compare/contrast with the legend of King Arthur. In Language Arts, they will be exploring the standard elements of “a hero story.”

To help the students select good books, we set up a How To Choose a Good Book for Yourself Activity. Based on a reading list created jointly by the teacher and librarian, we set up books to choose from. Each student had an evaluation form to complete. The evaluation form asked the student to, first only looking at the cover of the books, choose a book that looks interesting to you and rate - from “Very Interesting” to “Not Interesting at All” - the Picture on the Cover and the Title. For the second part, the student picks up the book s/he is interested in and reads the Blurb on the back or inside cover and considers the Reading Level. After the student finds a book that s/he wants to read, s/he must complete this sentence at the bottom of the evaluation form, “I want to read this book because …”

Among the most popular titles were:
The Sea of Trolls by Nancy Farmer
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis
Eragon by Christopher Paolini
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle
Rowan Hood by Nancy Springer
The Great Good Thing by Roderick Townley

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