English teachers Donhauser and Stutzman and teacher librarian Hersey outline an approach to teaching secondary English focused on student-generated questions and allowing students to lead, find their own way, and discover their own passions by choosing their own texts, asking their own questions, and discovering their own answers. They describe the inquiry learning plan, an organizational tool that allows students to experience an inquiry process and guide their learning, in which they outline the materials they will be studying, list essential and guiding questions and choose their standards for the unit, direct how they learn new information and practice the standards as they design and complete activities and reflections that show growth in terms of skills and content knowledge, and bring their learning together through a final project. The authors detail strategies and processes to support the gradual release of responsibility to students and discuss the theory and thinking behind the strategies, along with student examples. They address strategies for empowering students to discover, begin an inquiry, choose texts, and develop questions; enabling students to learn how to learn and use standards in creating activities; entrusting students with charting their own progress through assessment and reflection; and implementing the inquiry learning plan, and how it looks in the classroom. Annotation 2018 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
