Synthesis Blog #4 Journal Club Reading

Summarize:
This article at its core, was and is a resource on how you can bring together science and literary sources and for novels to increase interest in both science and reading. It gives examples of good and not so good literary works to be used or not used in the classroom for varies reasons.

Connections:

• Connects to the history article I read in the sense that they had similar reasonings of why certain material works and others don't.
• Reminds me of other works I have read in the past. Ex: Dark Life
• This article not only references how science and lit relates, but also references how in these science novels, it is not uncommon for politics, economics, and other social studies elements within the texts.

Critiques:

• Gave ample amount of examples of text that relates to science and literature relations.
• They effectively tie those examples back into the big picture.
• I do wish the article provided science teachers more strategies and options on how to incorporate literacy elements in science instead of focusing on bring science into lit classes at the conclusion. 

Explanations:

I think the most important thing to draw from this article is the potential to incorporate reading into our separate subjects, in this case the science field. There are a multitude of options that we as teachers can use to provide our students further understanding on our subjects and to be working on our students reading strategies, which will help them understand and analyze all texts. I see this as a great way to provide students with supplemental text to aid in their understand of topics we are learning in class. I could also see this as a way for some formative assessments, allowing my students to pull out information and quotes that relate to our subject and topic.

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