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 * **Title**: ||< Sharing articles through Diigo ||
 * **Subject**: ||< English ||
 * **Grade**: ||< IV AP ||
 * **Time Frame**: ||< one week ||
 * **Summary:** ||< My students were to find a reputable critical article about one of the AP novels or plays we read in the fall and critique the literary criticism, using evidence from the AP novel or play. The hardest part of this assignment in the past has been finding an appropriate article, so this year, I asked the kids to join our Diigo group, Senior AP Literature, and then bookmark and share an article they found that they thought they could critique. I browsed the articles and commented on its usefulness for the assignment, so all the kids who were part of the group could judge whether they wanted to read someone else's article instead. The students found meaningful articles and thought using the Diigo was easy. The best part is if someone was unsatisfied with what they found, then they could use someone else's based on the comments I left. ||
 * **Tasks**: ||< Students joined the Senior AP Literature group, researched articles about one of their AP novels or plays, bookmarked and shared the article, writing a brief comment about the article. Then, I left a comment about the article's usefulness or potential for the literary criticism assignment. ||
 * Objectives: ||< Research a critical article about a choice AP novel or play that the student read recently. Analyze the article and evaluate its usefulness by writing a short commentary. ||
 * Assessment: ||< I looked at the shared article and commented briefly on it. ||
 * Resources: ||< internet to access Diigo and the library database ||
 * **Teacher**
 * Reflections:** || It went well all around. The year before I used Diigo, the other teacher in my team and I found the articles for the kids and gave it to them, which was very time-consuming. This year, handing the responsibility to them, proved beneficial for them and us. They found better articles than we did and it saved us so much time. Also, because everyone in the Senior AP Literature group had access to everyone's else's articles, they could read them and choose to write about one of theirs if they preferred. ||
 * **Examples**: ||< * Links to teacher or student work examples. ||

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