October
6
ELA 20: Oct 6 Watching Readers Theater and Wicked Witches…
- One of the assignments planned for this unit is for students to work in groups and create a readers theatre to perform for the elementary grades. The focus is to take a fairy tale and adapt it to make it more modern yet still have the same lesson. This takes quite a few classes to do, though, and to keep on track with our unit I’ve decided this year to skip this project. In its place, though, I had the students watch videos of two readers theatres students of mine two years ago created. They did a wonderful job of including the audience in the storyline and then Kenaston students benefited from understanding what their own project would have been like.
- We started reading an article, then, titled “Who’s Afraid of the Wicked Witch” about children’s stories and how there are actually really awful lessons told in those stories that can have a bad influence on children’s expectations, like that magical fairies will save the day for you or people are either ugly and evil or pretty and nice. It was an interesting article that opened our eyes to some of the realities of what really is in those childhood stories.