Jennifer Brooke

Diversity Rounds

This protocol directs students to reflect on the ways in which their identity shapes their reading/ audience response compared to

This activity uses “third point objects” that help students think critically and creatively about a work. When students are faced

Conversations with a naïve partner can be an effective means to engage in reflection and identify gaps in knowledge or

At the beginning of a unit, this protocol works well with discussion questions that focus on the students’ personal response

This unit on Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is designed to focus on close reading and literary analysis skills.

Identifying significant lines of text is a reading skill. Many students will describe this process as being intuitive claiming, “the