Week 10

Week #10

     I really enjoyed getting so much time in class to prepare for our thematic units. It was helpful to get to brainstorm ideas for our lessons as well as decide who was doing what. I look forward to seeing everyone's wikispace pages because they will all be very unique. I think it would be awesome to do a project like this with middle school students. They usually love working with technology and this gives them a way to use it creatively. I think it is a cool idea to have pages on the website that they are required to complete and then think of a few others that would be more fun. Also allowing the students to think of ways they want to creatively show their knowledge is a smart idea. If the teacher gives the students choice they will be more likely to want to do the project and hopefully be more excited about it. I think my favorite part of our assignment for wikispaces is doing the Found poetry. It allows students to be as creative as they want. Also anyone can do it because you could simply keep words that have meaning to the story and they don't have to make sentences it could just be key words. I think for students who are scared of poetry and think they cannot write it, this is a perfect first step to writing poetry. Then for those students who do enjoy it, they can be more creative and make the poem into meaningful sentences or into a picture that is significant with the book.

     I do not feel as overwhelmed by our thematic unit as I at first thought I would be. It seems like a manageable amount of work for how much time we have left in the semester. I think since we have all been in block already creating ten lessons plans overall does not seem as big of a task. I think it will be fun to think of lessons to go along with my book I chose.