That's what's on the menu for class this week. I'm finding the lost boys pretty interesting and have decided to expand the lesson with my class to include a little country research, flag, and drawing. The students of course will do most of the work. They have already read and excerpt from the text and written the summary, tomorrow they will work on their drawing and I will assign countries for them to research....limited to Sudan, Ethiopia, and Kenya.
As for the biographies, my 7th graders are going to choose someone they think is successful (I gave them this caveat, the biography must be in our school library!) and research the person, what makes them successful, and write a 5 paragraph report on the person. We have already read brief biographies in the text on Frida Kahlo, Mae Jemison, Christopher Reeve, Tim Berners-Lee, Maya Lin and Naomi Shihab-Nye. The students have practice interviewing and writing research style questions. Tomorrow they will get the rubric for the assignment.
I'm sure there will be a lot of questions....so time for me to study.
blessings among the chaos!
Monday, March 26
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