September
11
ELA A10: Sept 11 Writing / Poetry discussion…
- Students began the class with time to develop their plot details. I had asked them yesterday to consider their story options after school and at home at night. Since class time is a precious resource, using home time to “think” and class time to “write” would be the best option. However, they were here this morning with few ideas and it didn’t seem like a good use of their class time.
- I asked them, by measure of a vote, whether they wanted to postpone their Period 1 of 3 writing class until Monday and use today’s class to move on with other content. The vote was to move on, which we did. The deal then, though, is that they actually consider their stories at home on the weekend and come Monday ready to write!!
- We read through a few poems related to this unit and focused on elements of the story like imagery, identifying the speaker, and deciding on a possible climax. (Not all poems have a climax or resolution.) We’ll study the poetry in more detail next week but hopefully they’ll have a productive weekend.