Talk+Unit-6,7,8+Talking+Service+Texts

=Talking Service Texts= The following seven brief, yet complex and rich texts are from the Great Books Anthology, "Talking Service." We discussed purchasing the books in June, but did not. So, physical copies will need to be made by each teacher. If you don't already have a master hard copy I'll leave a "master copy" in my box in case anyone still needs one (please copy it and leave in my box.)

by Grade-level || We are NOT limited to using just the texts at each grade-level. 6th can use all seven texts, for example. And the QTEL sequence of lessons calls for using //A Bed for The Night// (6th grade) and //The Lamb and the Pine Cone// (7th grade) as the first two texts, which the 8th grade will also use. So teachers should make their own decisions, perhaps as a grade-level. But this may be helpful and it represents the consensus thinking at a July meeting of Language A teachers at all grade-levels (Scott, Jennifer, Bobbe, Emma, Sue, Francisco). ||
 * Possible Texts
 * 6th || A bed for The Night, Bertolt Brecht

Theme for English B, Langston Hughes ||
 * 7th || The Lamb and the Pine Cone, Pablo Neruda

A Gift of Love, Martin Luther King Jr. || (Perhaps the most complex of all texts)
 * 8th || Selection from //Reveries of a Solitary Walker,// Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Fellowship, Franz Kafka

Earliest Impressions, Jane Addams ||

They are excellent texts for Shared Inquiry discussions, Socratic Seminars, etc.

A gift of love http://books.google.com/books?id=qnoc3JhV5iUC&pg=PA62&lpg=PA62&dq=a+gift+of+love+martin+l+king&source=bl&ots=qn6yFJhbip&sig=5IlCOVRqHbM64xh6qMUEBIkgIbA&hl=en&ei=Qnn6TaiXMc_YiAL1k-GCBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBoQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false

A bed for the night http://whimsley.typepad.com/whimsley/2006/03/a_bed_for_the_n.html

Theme for English b http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~keith/poems/English_B.html

Earliest impressions ( link to the whole text) http://media.pfeiffer.edu/lridener/DSS/Addams/2hh1.html

Reveries of the solitary walker (whole text) http://www.generation-online.org/p/fprousseau.htm

Fellowship



Could not find The Lamb and the Pinecone

The Martin Luther King Essay was wonderful and worth adding if we can locate it, but is perhaps not in the public domain...

Here's another idea: JFK's inaugural address, "Ask not what your country can do for you..."

For a review or introduction to **SHARED INQUIRY** see link below. Great primer on Shared Inquiry. Includes basic "rules," FAQ, emphasizes the role of "interpretive questions," explains three types of questions
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http://www.greatbooks.org/tutorial/index.html (If this doesn't connect, just Google search "Great Books"+"shared inquiry"