These weeks followed the same format, so I'll post them together. Mondays, Danilo from Magic Box came to help students make videos that will accompany the group poems (and be played behind the performers). Tuesdays and Wednesdays were group choice days, in which students could work on their videos or practice performing their poetry. The second half of Wednesdays, students performed their poems to the class and received feedback. Thursdays, Alli (our guidance counselor) continued with her college and career readiness lessons. Agenda
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The creative project at the end of this unit (essentially a new unit, but based on the content from the last one) is an original, student-written group poem, which will be performed onstage in front of a student-made video. In the first week of the unit, students combined original poems they wrote in English class (based on the themes & events from their literature circle books) into a group poem! Also, starting this week, every Thursday, our guidance counselor and college counselor (a former graduate of our school & current college student) will come into the class to help students begin thinking about college. Agenda
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This week, we mixed things up a bit because routines were becoming a little boring to some students. Also, I wanted a chance to be able to talk more deeply about a few key social issues the books addressed. We tried an activity that may become a new staple in the class - Reality Check! Agenda
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