Reader Response Notebooks

 Just received the following email: Hi Ted! Hope all is well. My name is Evan Dickerson. I took your reader  response notebook course over the summer. I was the only high school  English teacher there. I wanted to share with you some of the work my eleventh-grade students  have been doing at Nutley High School in Nutley, NJ. We're in a unit  on evaluating fiction. Our focus questions are "Why are some stories  considered 'timeless'? What makes a 'classic' piece of fiction?" To diversify their notebooks, I had students complete a  sketch-to-stretch entry in which they had to "illustrate the central  conflict of the story". Both the students and I were amazed by the  results. They actually found that they thought more deeply about the  sketches than they ever did while using a traditional box-and-bullets  strategy. Thanks for sharing such valuable resources. They are definitely not  just for elementary students! The entries you're seeing are fr