Brittany, I really enjoyed the way you all connected the book to your respective content areas. I like how Gabie talked about how the book itself was stretching itself when it came to connecting to certain math and science topics, but she brought up a good point saying you could use this book to introduce those concepts such as distance and trajectory in a fun, interesting way. I feel like you could take bits and pieces of the book to show your students how these concepts relate to the outside world and give them real world examples from the novel, not necessarily using the actual content from the novel like Alex’s rocket traveled 4 feet in the air, how long did it take to reach the ground, but just using these scenarios as an introduction I think would be helpful for students. I think a lot of us stressed about how to connect our books in book club to certain content aspects, but just using it as an introduction seems simple and beneficial to me. I also like Georganna’s point about just using it as a connection between students' lives and knowing your students before you expose them to a book that can have deeper meanings/connotations that you might not think about. See you in the Cosmos seems like an interesting read for students depending on what you are talking about/teaching in the classroom. Even if you don’t read it with your students, I like that it was talked about being beneficial for students in general.
Brittany (and the rest of your book club!!), Your podcast was not only wonderfully planned out, but gave a various amount of insight into how I would want to teach this novel to my future science class. In the beginning, Callie mentions how this book is "a self awareness and coming of age" book. I love how this was included as in middle school this is the time in our children's lives where they are starting to find out who and what they are. Having not only supporting people in a child's life but also a book that can support him or her can really help, in my opinion, feel safe and comfortable.
Brittany- you did an amazing job explaining how this book can be incorporated into BOTH the science and math classroom (even though you wouldn't "require" it in your classroom). This is totally fair as it is not really our goal, as a non ELA teacher to require books as assignments. Thank you for being honest! Like you and Georganna said, being this book does present topics such as family issues it may not be a good idea for us as teachers to introduce this, especially in the middle grades classroom.
All in all, an interesting, yet intelligent discussion regarding "See You in the Cosmos"!
Brittany,
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed the way you all connected the book to your respective content areas. I like how Gabie talked about how the book itself was stretching itself when it came to connecting to certain math and science topics, but she brought up a good point saying you could use this book to introduce those concepts such as distance and trajectory in a fun, interesting way. I feel like you could take bits and pieces of the book to show your students how these concepts relate to the outside world and give them real world examples from the novel, not necessarily using the actual content from the novel like Alex’s rocket traveled 4 feet in the air, how long did it take to reach the ground, but just using these scenarios as an introduction I think would be helpful for students. I think a lot of us stressed about how to connect our books in book club to certain content aspects, but just using it as an introduction seems simple and beneficial to me. I also like Georganna’s point about just using it as a connection between students' lives and knowing your students before you expose them to a book that can have deeper meanings/connotations that you might not think about. See you in the Cosmos seems like an interesting read for students depending on what you are talking about/teaching in the classroom. Even if you don’t read it with your students, I like that it was talked about being beneficial for students in general.
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Brittany (and the rest of your book club!!),
ReplyDeleteYour podcast was not only wonderfully planned out, but gave a various amount of insight into how I would want to teach this novel to my future science class. In the beginning, Callie mentions how this book is "a self awareness and coming of age" book. I love how this was included as in middle school this is the time in our children's lives where they are starting to find out who and what they are. Having not only supporting people in a child's life but also a book that can support him or her can really help, in my opinion, feel safe and comfortable.
Brittany- you did an amazing job explaining how this book can be incorporated into BOTH the science and math classroom (even though you wouldn't "require" it in your classroom). This is totally fair as it is not really our goal, as a non ELA teacher to require books as assignments. Thank you for being honest! Like you and Georganna said, being this book does present topics such as family issues it may not be a good idea for us as teachers to introduce this, especially in the middle grades classroom.
All in all, an interesting, yet intelligent discussion regarding "See You in the Cosmos"!
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