Creativity+and+Critical+Thinking

=Habits of Mind 1 =

**We aim to develop several "habits of mind" to foster students' creative and critical thinking, as they consider texts they study in terms of: **
= = =Reading List =
 * ====**Significance - Why is it important? **====
 * ====**Perspective - What is the point of view? **====
 * ====**Evidence - How do you know? **====
 * ====**Connection - How does it apply? **====
 * ====**Supposition - What if it were different? **====


 * ===//The Shape of a Girl// (Joan McLeod, Canadian Modern Drama - Yes! Canadian content!)* ===
 * ===//Macbeth// (Global Series) ===
 * ===//The Arrival// (Shaun Tan, graphic novel) ===

 Students may choose one of the following novels:

 * ===//Bleachers// (John Grisham)* ===
 * ===//The Joy Luck Club// (Amy Tan) ===
 * ===//Lord of the Flies// (William Golding) ===
 * ===<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">//Obasan// (Joy Kogawa) ===
 * ===<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">//The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian// (Sherman Alexie)* ===
 * ===<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">//The Help// (Kathryn Stockett) ===

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Students may choose one of the following films:
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 * ===<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">//Finding Neverland// ===
 * ===<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">//Elizabethtown// ===
 * ===<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">//Stranger Than Fiction// ===
 * ===<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">//Million Dollar Baby// ===
 * ===<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">//Big Fish// ===
 * ===<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">//It's Kind of a Funny Story*// ===
 * ===<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">//Hoop Dreams// ===

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">*Some texts include mature content. It is the responsibility of the teacher to review the text and determine its suitability to his/her specific teaching context.

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<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; vertical-align: super;">1 <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> Wagner paraphrases Deb Meier's "habits of mind" on p. 214 in //The Global Achievement Gap// (Wagner, 2010). Additional information about Deb Meier can be found here.