Greetings!
This week was our penultimate class for the year -- the one before the last one!
We started the class period with a Quick Write, and today's prompt was connected with the fact that it is National Poem in Your Pocket Day coming up in April. In fact, all of this month is National Poetry Month! I gave the students a sheet of paper with an extra large pocket outline. They were to write a poem within the lines of that pocket.
This week, they took the Sentence Patterns Final Test. After having done the and corrected the Review from last week, they should have done really well on it!
Their final writing assignment, a Reflection Paper, is due next week. For this paper, they are to write about what they learned this year, what they learned about themselves this year, and what did and didn't work well this year. At the bottom of this email is a link to an article about the value of reflection as a part of learning.
After all that business, we watched a few poetry performances and rated their poems and delivery style. There were some insightful comments about how poets use their voice, style, gestures and facial expressions. The point of this is to gather inspiration on how to effectively deliver their own poetry next week for our Poetry Event.
The rest of the class time was dedicated to committee work for the big event next week. As we discussed, it takes a lot of work to pull off a successful event. When students have “skin in the game” with planning and organizing an event, I find there’s a high level of ownership and engagement. After discussing how the committee work should flow, they were split into groups and got busy dividing and conquering their committee’s punch list. As a requirement, they were to exchange contact information and fill out an Exit Ticket to hand in at the end of class.
Next week is the final week, and I will accept homework until Saturday, May 4 at 7:00 AM. My experience is that once the CHAT classes are done, students really lose momentum for completing late homework. My plan is to get final grades out within the week.
Blessings on your weekend!
Mrs. G
Assignments for Next Week:
-- Any old homework
–Practice your poems!
–Committee work
--Poetry Event Slide Show (Canva)
Links for this Week:
Isabella Callery “Thoughtless Cruelty” by Charles Lamb
The Value of Reflection Papers
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