Week 3 assignments April 14-20

Hi, I'm back from my out-of-state trip and am so far behind it's scary.  Had to teach or go to meetings most of yesterday and then had a rehearsal in the evening.  Out in the schools this am to observe a graduate practicum student.  Now to Ed 591.

A few housekeeping notes:

You all need to become follower of each person in the class and respond to their posts.  I notice that some only have a few followers on their blog.  This is how we become a community. 

I'm not sure that all of you have finished the movie assignment.  I know that I confused some of you by saying that the movie was for this week.  Please post that so we can keep up-to-date.  It's hard to go back and catch up on all of you.

Assignments:

1.  This week you have the reading assignment from the syllabus, Chapter 3 - Trends, Issues and Censorship.  Please let us all know if you have dealt with a censorship issue in your district.  How was it dealt with, what book, how was it resolved.  I did post on one of the first days about an incident in the Salem-Keizer district.  Be sure to read the article.

I also want you to design a survey to give to your students.  Find out their favorite magazines, books, video games, movie, TV programs, etc.  Please give your survey to at least 20-40 middle or high school students.  Tally your findings.  Email me a copy of your survey but  talk about your tops five hits from each category on your post for April 27th. Then talk about some of these questions as more: Did you find out anything that surprised you?  Shocked you?  How well do you know your students?  

2.  Read a challenged book and talk about it on your blog.

Happy Reading!  Spring is here!

Sue