ABSTRACT
The many voices of adults are inclusive of educators and educators-in-training; they encompass the voices of parents and grandparents and the language that emerges from family and personal legacies. The multiple texts selected from regions of the eastern hemisphere provide an array of vital, international voices. Students are learning about themselves and each other as they begin to study the Eastern Hemisphere, they are also learning to respond to literature and share their responses with other members of their learning community. Evidence of group growth includes a communal list of what the group now knows about the geographical region to which its novel is tied, group record-keeping about assignments completed and daily individual commitment, daily collaborative notes on what will be shared with the whole group, and a plan for its group book-share. The group book-share, another form of assessment, represents the belief that individual learning is shared with the total community.
