Well, today went extremely well,
considering the students participated in a 7 hour day in two extremely hot
classrooms. I was miserable, so I can imagine the same from them, if not
more! I did enjoy the classes, however,
and we ended on a good note. They
thoroughly enjoyed the final activity of the day, and all students were awake
and no one complained! Score on my part! It was the first creative writing
activity that was completely fictional. All of the writings from the book in
e-mail or blog format about themselves. Sometimes it is a fictional situation,
but always believable. This writing, with the only guidance being “it has to be
in an outdoor space and involve an animal,” kept the students much more engaged
and was more fun for them. It was also fun for me to read as well!
One do over I wish I could have was
in a reading section. It was the second hour of the makeup section, so students
had been in class for 6 hours, and some were sleeping, but most were extremely
chatty cathys. A reading was next and I had planned to go over some challenging
vocabulary before we began, but I was too busy trying to rein them in to
mention this. This made the students a little frustrated and I extremely
frustrated because I had to go around and answer all of the questions! After
they finished reading, we went over the new vocabulary, but things would have
gone much more smoothly, had I remembered!
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