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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Chapter 1: Building the Foundation for an Engaging Classroom
Chapter 2: Engaging Students With Assigned Texts
Chapter 3: Engaging Students in Independent Book Clubs
Chapter 4: Engaging Students in Literary Analysis
Chapter 5: Engaging Students in Finding Their Voice
Appendix A: Glossary of Instructional Strategies for Engagement
Appendix B: Standards Alignment by Essential Practice

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Introduction

• Figure I.4: Notebook Rubric

Chapter 1: Building the Foundation for an Engaging Classroom

• Figure 1.1: Create Your Name Card
• Figure 1.2: Creating a Cultural Identity Map
• Figure 1.3: Cultural Identity Map—Exemplar
• Figure 1.6: How to Create a Commencement Speech Blackout Poem
• Figure 1.7: Engaging in Self-Assessment

Chapter 2: Engaging Students With Assigned Texts

• Figure 2.1: Brainstorming the Identity Map
• Figure 2.2: Exemplar Identity Map
• Figure 2.3: Creating an Annotation System of Your Own
• Figure 2.4: Collaborative Annotation Protocol
• Figure 2.6: My Seminar Discussion Points
• Figure 2.7: Outer Circle PRQC Form
• Figure 2.9: Reading With Critical Lenses
• Figure 2.10: Classic Texts and Popular Media Reimagined
• Figure 2.11: Reimagining Texts to Convey New Insights
• Figure 2.12: Rubric for Reimagined Text

Chapter 3: Engaging Students in Independent Book Clubs

• Figure 3.3: Reading Response Log
• Figure 3.4: Personal Reading Plan
• Figure 3.6: Directions for Creating a Visible Analysis and a Museum Labe
• Figure 3.8: Single-Point Rubric Example—Museum Label
• Figure 3.9: Card for Book Club Meetings
• Figure 3.10: Book Club Conversation Accountability Log
• Figure 3.11: Four Corners Discussion Survey
• Figure 3.12: Four Corners Discussion Reflective Questions

Chapter 4: Engaging Students in Literary Analysis

• Making the Analytical Process Visible
• Summary or Analysis—Mirror or Microscope
• Figure 4.6: Student Directions for Implementing the Question Question Formulation Technique Exit Ticket
• Figure 4.8: Student Directions for Creating and Evaluating a Claim
• Figure 4.9: EPIC Exit Ticket
• Figure 4.10: Sketching Out Your Literary Microanalysis
• Figure 4.12: Literary Microanalysis Peer Feedback Chart
• Figure 4.13: Single-Point Rubric for Literary Microanalysis

Chapter 5: Engaging Students in Finding Their Voice

• Figure 5.2: I’m Glad You’re Here This Evening
• Figure 5.4: Speaking Continuum of Development
• Figure 5.5: Pass the Mic
• Figure 5.6: Sample Excerpts From Calypso in The Odysse
• Figure 5.7: Pass the Mic Rubric
• Figure 5.8: Community Experience Analysis
• Figure 5.9: Single-Point Rubric for Autoethnographic-Inspired Personal Narrative
• Figure 5.10: Student Example of Researcher’s Field Journal
• Figure 5.11: Listen to Your Inner Voice
• Figure 5.12: Sample Experts
• Figure 5.13: Listen to Your Inner Voice Slide Presentation Requirements
• Figure 5.14: Single-Point Rubric for Listen to Your Inner Voice Presentation
• Figure 5.15: Use Your Voice to Advocate for Change Prompts
• Figure 5.16: Digging Deeper—Use Your Voice to Advocate for Change
• Figure 5.18: Advocate for Change—What Is Your Superpower?
• Figure 5.20: Single-Point Rubric for Using Your Voice to Advocate for Change
• Figure 5.21: Using Your Voice to Advocate for Change Reflection Questions
• Sketching Out a Literary Microanalysis
• Teacher Directions—Shared Reading of “Between Us: A Reckoning With My Mother” by Jason Reynolds

SUGGESTED RESOURCES

Books

• Pandolpho, B., & Cubano, K. (2023). Choose your own master class: Urgent ideas to invigorate your professional learning. Solution Tree Press.
• Porosoff, L., & Weinstein, J. (2017). EMPOWER your students: Tools to inspire a meaningful school experience, grades 6–12. Solution Tree Press.

Websites

Introduction

• Portraits of a Graduate

Chapter 1

• James Clear, Great Talks Most People Have Never Heard

Chapter 2

• Facing History and Ourselves, Identity Charts

Chapter 3

• Modern Mrs. Darcy, What Should I Read Next?
• Moving Writers, Using Two-Pagers to Fuel Analytical Writing
• Penny Kittle, Notebook Work

Chapter 5

• Britannica, ProCon
• The New York Times, 310 Prompts for Argumentative Writing
• Go Wyld, Social Issues