Civil Disobedience
Students were asked to create a protest sign to show their civil disobedience and their right to petition as we started to focus on the ideologies of transcendentalism.
Book Report Mobile
Students were asked to turn their Accelerated Reading book reports into a hanging mobile. Each mobile described the characters, the setting, and the plot. Students were given a project and oral presentation rubric to follow as a project based assessment of their comprehension.
Music and Animated Storyboards: Teaching Figurative Language
Students were given a "figurative language" rap song. They were then asked to listen to the lyrics and animate the song with a storyboard. Learning onomatopoeia has never been so fun!
Catcher In The Rye: Minds Intelligence
Final projects for Catcher In the Rye were based on differentiated instruction and the theory of minds intelligence. Students were given the choice to do any of the following:
1. create a music cd of songs that would represent themes, conflict, and plot from the story.
2. create a map that is labeled with memorable moments and significant locations where something happened to our characters or the plot began to change.
3. build a collage with words and phrases that are best represented by the novels' characters, theme, plot, or symbolism.
1. create a music cd of songs that would represent themes, conflict, and plot from the story.
2. create a map that is labeled with memorable moments and significant locations where something happened to our characters or the plot began to change.
3. build a collage with words and phrases that are best represented by the novels' characters, theme, plot, or symbolism.
Lord of the Flies
Students were asked to build an island and a flag that represented their tribe as we worked in cooperative groups to survive on our islands without becoming savages. What a great way to teach the themes from the Lord of the Flies with a Survivor feel.
Writing the Process Paper
The best way to teach students how to write a "How-To" paper is to make them teach the process and then write it. Students spent a week teaching other a talent from their group, wrote a how-to paper, and learned a variety of things from making ice cream through chemical reactions to rolling sushi! This is one of my students favorite lessons.