Friday, January 09, 2009

Podcast #165 - The Book Blitz Classroom Activity - Getting Students to Read Historical Novels


Hello. We did an interesting activity in class today that I thought I would share - a Book Blitz. Our library media center has a great collection of historical novels and books with a historical interest - my task is to encourage students to check them out and read them. For some reason though it just doesn't work for me to tell them to "go to the LMC and find a good historical novel" so I decided to bring the books to them.

The podcast describes how we did the activity and the handout I created is available here as a PDF if you want to use in your classroom. I have also listed a partial list of novels and books that were pulled from the LMC to use for the blitz activity. I have read some, but not all, of the books on this list.


If you would like to comment on this podcast, let me know how this activity worked in your class or would like to comment on a novel from the list (or add a historical novel for junior high students to the list) please leave a comment to this blog post.
























1 comment:

  1. Eric:
    I hope to post a reference to your blog on podcast 165 in a blog entry I'm posting on Thursday at http://citruscountysocialstudies.blogspot.com/ . I like the material you provided, the comments on your podcast, and the resources you provided for reading historical novels in the classroom. Thanks for your effort.

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