The Best Part of Secondary One

Our first class writing project in Secondary One was to, using Wendy Ewald's The Best Part of Me as a mentor text, write about our own favorite features. We also began working with photography and photo editing with this project.

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Silent Socratic Seminar

What better way to take advantage of our new classroom than to fill up the walls with student work? Today in A Level English Language, we discussed the final episode of our study of Serial , a podcast that takes twelve episodes to investigate a crime and tell a compelling story. We've studied features of narrative nonfiction, using evidence (both physical and circumstantial) to support an argument, use of ethos, pathos, and logos, and author's craft in constructing an engaging show. Instead of a more traditional discussion that, while certainly valuable, can favor more extroverted personalities, we spent 20 minutes in total silence (and they really did respect the silent atmosphere!). The students used this time to share questions that they had created and then respond to other students' questions. (I adapted our structure from this stellar teacher's website .) One aspect of today's discussion that worked particularly well was that the students w

Shakespeare Breakout

As we've been getting ready to begin our first quarter novel, Station Eleven , we've been learning a bit about Shakespeare and his time. Deep in thought - so close to the finish! Instead of a lecture, though, we did a virtual breakout room called The Missing Script. The students were on teams of three who had to solve a series of puzzles, riddles, and other challenges to return the missing script to William Shakespeare. Putting together the pieces of a virtual puzzle This group was so persistent on a challenging level - excellent show of resilience! It took us two days, but we had some winners in the breakout challenge. Congratulations to our first place team - they returned the missing script first! Way to go, second place team! After a few hurdles, this team rocketed to a third place finish. Be sure to ask your students what they learned from the breakout!

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