According to Mary Ann Cappiello and Erika Thulin Dawes, there are important reasons for using text sets:
Capturing interest and cultivating engagement
Stimulating inquiry
Reading for multiple perspectives
Building background knowledge
Promoting student writing in different genres
Differentiating instruction
Supporting vocabulary development
Source : Cappiello, Mary A., Erika T. Dawes, and Lesley University. Teaching with text sets. Huntington Beach, CA: Shell Education, 2013. Print.
Examples--Holocaust: Graphic novel: Maus Historical fiction: Rose Under Fire Poetry and Art: I Never Saw Another Butterfly Novel in Verse: T4 Autobiography: Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl Biography: Survivors: True Stories of Children of the Holocaust YouTube: Elie Weisel interview Non-fiction: The Holocaust Camps by Ann Byers Website: Online Exhibition: Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race Podcast:NPR: Aging Holocaust Survivors and Memory
Thought question: What is the purpose of remembering?
According to Mary Ann Cappiello and Erika Thulin Dawes, there are important reasons for using text sets:
Capturing interest and cultivating engagement
Stimulating inquiry
Reading for multiple perspectives
Building background knowledge
Promoting student writing in different genres
Differentiating instruction
Supporting vocabulary development
Source : Cappiello, Mary A., Erika T. Dawes, and Lesley University. Teaching with text sets. Huntington Beach, CA: Shell Education, 2013. Print.
Examples--Holocaust:
Graphic novel: Maus
Historical fiction: Rose Under Fire
Poetry and Art: I Never Saw Another Butterfly
Novel in Verse: T4
Autobiography: Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl
Biography: Survivors: True Stories of Children of the Holocaust
YouTube: Elie Weisel interview
Non-fiction: The Holocaust Camps by Ann Byers
Website: Online Exhibition: Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race
Podcast: NPR: Aging Holocaust Survivors and Memory
Thought question: What is the purpose of remembering?
Examples--Survival:
Non-fiction: Between A Rock and a Hard Place by Aron Ralston
Non-Fiction: Into Thin Air by John Krakauer
Non-fiction: Shackleton's Way by Margot Morrell
Simultaneous e-book: Nature's Wrath
Fiction: Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
Fiction: The Maze Runner by James Dashner
Fiction: Rot and Ruin by Jonathan Maberry
YouTube: Aron Ralston Real Video Footage
ESPN Article: "Ralston Story Has Motivated Inspired" (19 Aug 2005).
Website: Shakleton's Voyage of Endurance (PBS Website)
Interactive Website: Everest 2012 (Outside Magazine)
Infographic: Do It Yourself Natural Disaster Survival
Thought Question? Fools or Heroes?
OR
How do you survive? What is the relationship between decisions and consequences?