1. I started today’s class with a reminder that I always try to give an outline on the board that indicates what we will be doing for that period. Today’s list began with a reminder that their Interview Assignment is due next Wednesday.
2. They were also given the actual handout sheet for the Childhood Boundary Assignment I discussed with them yesterday. Along with the handout, they have a photocopy of two student examples of the same work – one a good example and the other a poor one. We compared the two and I explained what the poor example was missing and pointed out the things done especially well in the good example. The biggest difference between the two is to focus on creating a map of memories rather than just drawing a map.
3. I then showed them a clip from the movie Without a Paddle where the friends, now men, return to a childhood treehouse they used to share. There were several expected comments like “I remember the door being much  bigger” or shouting out “Hey!!” when they noticed something left there that they remembered. The point in watching this is to prove the idea that “going back to a place” can be more than just a trip to a location – it can be a trip to your own youth. It can give you an opportunity as a mature person to look back fondly at how easy life may have been back then or how the simplest of things brought the greatest amount of joy!
4. The students were also asked (for homework) to write a comment to my own blog post of Wednesday’s activity of returning to Kindergarten. They were asked to share their thoughts about the experience and whether they learned something from it.
5. Then, with the leftover forty-five minutes of class, they had time to continue working on their Interview assignment and use a school computer, work on brainstorming and drafting their Childhood boundary or adding their comment to the blog. All of them are due by next Wednesday.

Have a great Long Weekend!