Olivia Soehner

Blog Post #6

Honestly I don’t disagree with anything Ripp says about graphic novels. I did think it was weird to read this after reading Passionate Readers where she suggests counting graphic novels as 1/2 or 1/4 of a book towards a student’s end of year reading goal, but I also know that people can change their minds.Continue reading “Blog Post #6”

Blog Post #5

I feel like all of my opinions about booktok and things like it need to be prefaced by my pretty negative personal experiences with social media. Growing up I did not have unmonitored internet access until I was 14, which was pretty late for the time. While the rest of my friends were lying aboutContinue reading “Blog Post #5”

Blog Post #4 Reflection on Passionate Readers by Pernille Ripp

I desperately want to make independent, self selected reading happen in my classroom next year. During my student teaching, independent reading is something that just didn’t happen for a lot of reasons: 1.) I didn’t have books to give to students and 2.) Even if I had books, hybrid teaching and quarantines meant that studentsContinue reading “Blog Post #4 Reflection on Passionate Readers by Pernille Ripp”

Blog Post #3: Reflection on A Novel Approach by Kate Roberts

While this summer has had some really wonderful and relaxing days for me, it has also been a time of intense anxiety. Like many other first year teachers, I am moving, starting first job, and attempting to finish summer classes during the same couple of weeks. The most frustrating thing about all of this forContinue reading “Blog Post #3: Reflection on A Novel Approach by Kate Roberts”

Blog Post #2

Honestly I pretty much agree with and support everything that Buehler has to say about YA pedagogy. I am beyond excited that the school I am working at in the Fall seems to be really supportive of using YA in the classroom. My team and I have two units planned that use YA as theContinue reading “Blog Post #2”

Blog Post #1

This summer I really want to focus on building my classroom library for the upcoming school year. I have already done a lot of preliminary work on this– making lists, driving to every secondhand bookstore in the Athens area, raiding my parent’s house (and my friends parent’s houses) for those books that were so goodContinue reading “Blog Post #1”

Alternative Book Report #3

For my final Alternative Book report I choose prompt #34: Found Poetry. The book I am using is Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys. The original prompt says to pick a single chapter to find your text fragments in, but since this book is not divided into chapters I decided to get all ofContinue reading “Alternative Book Report #3”

Alternative Book Report #2

I decided to do a version of prompt #25: Poetry. I wrote three poems inspired by Shout by Laurie Halse Anserson. Each poem is inspired/modeled after a specific poem in the book. I chose this prompt because I want to use these poems as mentor texts in the future (I will purchase a copy ofContinue reading “Alternative Book Report #2”

Alternative Book Report #1

I decided to do a version of prompt #49: Photo Album. I created “moodboards” for each of the three main characters in A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder. A moodboard is basically a collage of pinterest images that represent certain aspects of a character. I’m not sure if kids still make these, but IContinue reading “Alternative Book Report #1”

Character Instagram Accounts

This is a modified version of something I had to do in high school where we made dating profiles for all of the characters in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. For this project, students would need to create an instagram account posing as one of the characters from the book they are reading currently. Students wouldContinue reading “Character Instagram Accounts”