Sheila@15: so what did u like think of the book TTYL!!!??? wasnt it just the best!Sheila@27: It was okay. I really did enjoy the medium it was written in. I think many teens would enjoy reading something in this format because it comines their language with a medium that they are more intimately familiar with.
Sheila@15: yeah thats cool but didnt u luv the story!?! *waves hands* they felt soooo real to me. Poor Angie with her boys and Maddie is soooo sad Zoe is just crazy!!
Sheila@27: I thought the story was really interesting, but I had trouble relating to it. I'm sure my students will be able to connect with the struggles of these girls more than I am able to. I guess I just need to be considerate of their interests when it comes to reading. What do you think boys your age would think of this book?
Sheila@15: who cares what the boyz think!? they totes dont understand what it is like to be a girl this book is all about supporting girlz and girl power! didnt you just love the part where they took quizes!? i take those quizes all the time! i linked mine in
Sheila@27: Yeah, I really did like the part where they talked about taking those quizes because that was something I did often with my friends when I was your age. I also think it would be fun to take some of these quizes as a class and see what they come up with and talk about how these things work and what they say about us. It would be a good activity to connect to our characters.
Sheila@15: that sounds totes lame :( y cant you just relax and have fun!?!
Sheila@27: Well, I know you want to just have fun with it, but I want to come up with fun ways for you to engage with it. Like Sam Intrator and Robert Kunzman explain in their article, there is a lot of value to be had in the electronic forums in which adolescents participate. I want to bring these forms into my classroom so that you can have more fun.Sheila@15: oooooohhhhhh i guess that makes sense but dont make it boring. thats the worst part about classes is that the teacher just stands up there and talks at us and i just write notes to my bf and my friends
Sheila@27: So, what would you like to see more of in your own classes?
Sheila@15: i want more fun in classes more games more fun days y cant we do more things that we enjoy???!? no more worksheets and more discussions!
Sheila@27: Well, I think we could do something with that. I'll take your input and try to edit my class to make it more fun and engaging. Don't be afriad to tell me what you think would help you learn; you are the authority of your own knowledge so you need to be proactive about it.
Fathful audience, I know this looks totes strange (LOL), but this is what I had to read for class this week. I absolutely loved the form of the text. I couldn't believe how much depth there was to characters that only spoke through IMs. Myracle's book is so well developed. I felt like I knew these girls by the end of reading it. Now I'm debating on whether I should read the next book! I only had one problem with the book and that was the content. At times, I just found it trite and it really tried my patience at times, but I think this is because I can't entirely relate to this age group anymore. I mean, there were things that I can totally remember doing at 15 (which is why I set up my intro the way I did). I loved the references to the quizes and I thought these would be great to bring into a classroom and take some quizzes and even make some quizzes if we could. I also like how much character development there is in so few words. I think students would like exploring this as well. I thought I could bring in gaming dialoge that they could build characters from and this would tie in to their writing outside of the classroom. Although I might not use this book as an assigned text, I can definitely see its value for drawing students into lessons. Maybe they could even understand Shakespeare better by seeing how characters are developed through dialogue.
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