![]() My second “hook” if you will was to do Stand Up/Sit Down. They also need much more structure and scaffolding than I originally was providing them.Īt this point I was feeling pretty rough, though there were two parts to the lesson that were going ok. This is a unit test for the novel Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson. This unit looks specifically at the use of debates, stories and information gaps. This class is SO full of energy and spirit and personality. Unit 6 looks at a number of different activities we can use to help our students with their speaking skills. Third mistake was trying to replace the toothpaste metaphor with the wrinkled heart activity using Chrysanthemum – only to find out the teacher had read the story to them the previous week and that the students couldn’t handle listening to a story while simultaneously interacting with a piece of paper immediately following recess (rookie mistake). ![]() Classes hadn’t established class norms, learned positive groupwork habits, or remembered how to follow directions yet. Good nonfiction piece to accompany study of the novel. Includes a link to the attacking editorial. ![]() Second mistake was trying to do something involving centers/rotations: A center for each THINK rule! Students work together to learn about the rule and sort examples and come up with their own! Sounded great! But it was too early in the year. This literary nonfiction text chronicles the story of Frederick Douglass early life and includes events that influenced both his life and those of others. Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson Lesson plans and teaching resources This guy thinks Speak is pornography Laurie Halse Andersons 2010 blog responding to an attack on Speak. First mistake was trying to use the “our words are like toothpaste” metaphor with an incredulous and opinionated cohort (see here for my account of this fail).
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