Below, are the questions I asked students in an end-of-the-year circle as well as their various responses in no particular order or ranking. I tried to bold the most common responses.
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The final unit for this course is an argumentative essay, which will prepare student for the CCLS ELA Regents in June and also serve as a PBAT (portfolio piece) for their culminating presentation to move to the next grade. The question I chose was: Should prostitution be a crime? I chose this because I think it's important to have students be able to pick either side and still present a feminist argument, which is difficult for many gender studies topics. Agenda:
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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
As the weekly format remained the mostly same for the last 3 weeks, I'll post them all at once below. Agenda: Week 4
Agenda: Week 5
Agenda: Week 6
This week was our first full week of classes, so students were able to complete a writing assignment in addition to the other 3 lessons we've been doing for the last 2 weeks. Agenda
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Last week was another short week, so I only saw students 3 days, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. We bypassed the (what will be) "Wednesday" lesson which is a writing day. Agenda
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Last Monday was a Professional Development day, so it was an abbreviated week. For regular 4-day weeks, the plan is:
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I often ask students 3 questions when asking them to reflect on a unit or project.
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