For the Love of Art
In our World Literature course, we have read several stories that deal with hardship and various types of conflict in the world. One of those stories is Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. Students analyzed characters, made connections, researched modern day refugee issues, learned about Afghanistan, and so much more. While reading this story, students were also given an activity menu to choose assignments that reflect events, themes, moods or characterization in chapters of the
Characters on Trial
In seventh grade, we read Retrieving Reformation by O. Henry. This is a tale that teaches students to understand that even if we make mistakes or do something wrong- we can still change our behavior to do the right thing. It teaches them to see the lesson we should learn from our mistakes, to forgive ourselves and forgive others. The students enjoyed it and I highly reccommend it. Two of our accompanying activities for this short story were to create comic books about forgive
NaNo TV Interviews
The eighth graders created talk shows, where they interviewed each other as they stepped into the shoes of the characters they created in their novels. It was a lot of fun, they were so creative! #nanowrimo #character #literature #novel #novelist #drama