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Tripping along the Path-Week 10
Things have been things have been going so well lately that I haven't had this need or the urge to post. The kids no considerable more about how to research paper than I ever imagined, and the bibliography to come out looking almost official from the start.
In English we do. It in tomorrow I hope that the students are prepared very important that they go to this process together in class.
In creative writing to students are starting out webfolios. This is the first year that I've been able to give them instructions if they can actually understand from the beginning. It really makes a difference when you can get your act together and tell the students exactly what to do before they get involved in doing the creation webfolio the wrong way. Don't get me wrong it was really hard today running around helping each student individually. I'm beat. The payoff, however, is tremendous. I'm hoping if they can really work on these and make something of them because they could be invaluable to them later on.
We use Google Sites to make our webfolios. It works well it's a little clunky when you're using Internet Explorer, and I'm afraid soon Internet Explorer won't work with it all.
Not very many students turned into character sketches for I guess I should say a lot of students didn't tournament I need to figure out another way to make them get the papers turned in on time. I just don't know what that might be. I text the students today before I email the parents I just don't know that I can do anything more.
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Week Eight-Chasing Allusions
1 thing about this time of year is it seems to take forever to get to a holiday.
The research paper is coming along nicely the students have posted their thesis statements and started on the introductory paragraphs. We are going to try out lining next week with a new program. Using sirs.com outlining program to create graphic organizer.
I was really thrilled at the way I was able to talk 1 on 1 with you to the creative writing students about your personal narratives.
I don't think I'll have to use the essay tagger program. I like the personal experience of writing on the papers.
Friday, October 19, 2012
Seeing Clearly-Week 7
The week was running a little slow at first. Research paper has been going at a good clip but students and 6 class don't seem to get the notion that they didn't need to work and not talk. I have to really coming down hard on them to get them to understand how serious they need to be about this.
Socrative is giving me some great resources that I can use to help them understand and do better on the research paper.
We're going to try using an outline graphic organizer form on SIRS search database to see if that works well for the students.
In creative writing 2 the murder mystery dinner theater was a great success. Who knew that Nate would be such a great conductor the kids stayed in a character and they were costumes and we had a wonderful time learning about murder mystery.
In creative writing 1 book bingo still seems to be problematic it's hard to get the kids to continually work and get things taken care off on time. Still I don't want to get up because I think it reading is very important activity.
Today on Friday there was a big field trip in a lot of my students were absent on a day today really needed to be in class.
I feel for the first time in weeks I've actually gotten a lot of work done probably because of the PSAT on Wednesday and I've not so far behind my grading anymore. Does it really take 7 weeks in order to get your act together with teaching?
Finally I think finally I figured out a way to do a lesson planning and everything to the admin want and still keep my sanity. It's all on 1 page now and it's easy to keep up with and I can make note to say go along, and that's all I have to keep in a notebook.
Well that's it for this week off to waiting on the weekend hopefully get some papers graded on Sunday and next weekend we are definitely deep into research and we are deep into reading character sketches and we are deep into writing murder mysteries.