Because our class is conducted online, we simply hosted our discussion in our online forum. We each selected a role -Director, Luminary, Illustrator, Connector, Summarizer, Vocabulary Enricher, Investigator, and Travel Tracker-and then formed our discussion around these roles.
Our Currins 650 reading group chose to apply Daniels’ schema to our own discussion of Watler Dean Myers’ Monster. “ Students, not the teacher, must be at the heart of the learning process, not passive recipients” (DaLie 84). Reading becomes a choice and not a requirement By treating her students like adults applying for a job and requiring a portfolio of work to prove their ability to fulfill their responsibility, she assigns her students an opportunity for agency and independence. Sandra Okura DaLie puts Harvey Daniels’ Literature Circle schema to work in her article “Students Becoming Real Readers: Literature Circles in High School English Classes.” She describes how each student must have an individual role in a book club and gives supplementary explanation on why these roles are important and which students may fit best for each role. This in turn leads to high recidivism rates in general, not just with juvenile offenders.” Finally, Rosemarie Arabiyat summed that “our criminal justice system seems to focus more on punishment than rehabilitation. I truly thought anyone defined as juvenile (under eighteen) was subject to different sentencing.” John Christensen, pointing out the sensitivity of the topic, reminded that “the family of the young juvenile doesn’t want their child being tried as an adult, but the family of the victim probably wants to see the attacker put away for good. Many in our group were stunned to read the article, which notes that our country “stands alone in sending juveniles to prison for life without the possibility of parole,” using the example of a ten-year-old with mental issues who is currently being tried for murder.Ĭlarissa Zimmerman “felt a deep sense of wastefulness regarding Steve’s age and the severity of his sentence for what seems like such marginal involvement. What lingered throughout Walter Dean Myer’s novel the most was the disbelief that this sixteen-year-old boy was being tried as an adult, facing life in prison.
This recent article got us thinking about Monster.
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