One More Full Week!

Here we are in the final full week of the year!  Can you believe it?  I should be winding things down, but I keep coming up with fun projects for my students to do, so it will be a busy week!

In English 9, we finished reading Part I of The Odyssey and they took the test on Friday.  This week we will watch the full movie and use the narrative as a model for writing their own heroic epic poems.  I'm going to have them start off by brainstorming ideas to use from their own life, and then I'll let them go crazy (in the same style as The Odyssey, with fantasy elements and all).  The draft will be due on Friday so that I can correct them over the weekend.

In English 11, we finished reading Night and they also took a test on Friday.  I have finished grading their personal narratives, and this week we will be creating web pages based on those narratives.  My focus is on the idea of how we tell our own story.  To add to this, we'll be watching The Book Thief in order to think about the interesting choice of having Death tell his own story during the Holocaust.  I want them to think of two things:  when sharing our story, we need to choose our details carefully so that when the public reads it our story becomes part of the fabric of society.

I'm hoping that my students are as excited by these projects as I am.  I look forward to seeing what fun and creative ideas they'll incorporate!

I hope everyone has a wonderful week.  Ciao!


One More Full Week! by Laura Stubbs is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.