At the beginning of class today, everyone read from their free choice books for fifteen minutes. After the reading, everybody recorded the pages that they read today and in any other books that they have been reading outside of class.
Next, we began the next phase of applying experiential learning activities in the English classroom by taking a look at some short stories that English teachers said they teach in their classrooms. Our work will focus on looking at these stories and how they can be connected with activities so that our activities will be more easily used in classes at LHS.
When reading stories we will look at the different ways that stories can be read and different elements of the stories so that we can connect them to appropriate activities.
Today, we read the short story "Harrison Bergeron." The class elected to read this story with partners (we'll conduct the reading of the short story in a different way each time). While reading the story, everyone should complete a story review sheet and, after reading the story, a reading format review sheet.
Homework:
If you did not do so in class, finish reading "Harrison Bergeron."
Read for at least two hours for this reading section (11/01 - 11/12) from your free choice book.
