Exhibit A
This is after being at school for just a few hours.
Well, even though my desk looks like the scene of a misdemeanor, some really great things have been going on in class. Regardless of a post camp hang-over, the kids are excited about our last novel of the year: Esperanza Rising. This book connects so well to the rest of the novels we have read this year, as well as to our 5th-6th grade perseverance program. Anyway, I designed an activity a few weeks back, and tried it with a few lit circles. The kids really loved it, so I am going to use it with our whole class novel. I'm super pumped.
So, what I did was take regular discussion questions ranging from setting to citing text evidence (and everything in between), and made them a little bit more fun to get us through the last few weeks of the year. I created a hashtag activity! My 6th graders are super into "hashtagging" everything, so they really like it. Here are some pics:
I put them on binder rings.
I like the ones on colored paper because
I have the tasks separated by concepts/tasks.
(setting, theme, plot, etc.)
This is my favorite part!
It's a chart to keep track of what cards I've assigned
or that the kids have chosen to make sure we have
covered them all.
I also printed out the response sheets,
although you really don't need them,
because I like that the kids have some accountability
at this point in the year.
The cards cover setting, character, conflict, theme, plot, citing text evidence, literary elements, and critical thinking/opinions. Tomorrow I am assigning 1 from each category, and I'm excited to see how this pushes the kids to a new, critical thinking level.
I put the cards up on my TPT store - I hope other teachers find them as enjoyable as I have!
So, even though my desk exploded, good things are still happening, even late in the year!
Peace out~
~L
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