Ok, so it's near impossible to sit and write for an entire cup of coffee while the baby is awake. Let's change this to "nap time writing".
Friday afternoon was pretty fun. My AP class finished The Crucible and had three options for their final project - no papers to grade! - create a board game, rewrite a scene in a different setting and something that no one choose. Who can remember before the first cup of coffee?
Only one student chose to rewrite a scene, but the board games were pretty fun! The first one was "Who Be A Witch?" It was set up sorta like clue. It was missing the vocab and plot elements of the assignment, but still fun to play. Moving on, I killed them at "Witches Pursuit". The Vocabulary questions were killer! Next year, we will discuss what makes a good question. Given a definition, it's nearly impossible to guess which word is the correct answer. I think of at least five different words that mean "the state of being unknown" (anonymous)... but the plot questions were pretty good.
Finally, we got to "Witch-Trail", based on Shoots and Ladders. My avatar was "Evil Fungal Bread", featuring a picture of a pretty mean looking loaf. The big ladder had become a rainbow colored stairway to heaven. The big slide was jail. There were also man-witches who barfed up sloppy-joes to block your path. Great artwork. On Monday, we're playing a Crucible version of Pokeman and Guess Who? and hopefully watching the scene acted out.
I'd love to do the same thing for Julius Caesar or Catcher in the Rye, but I'm afraid that those classes won't put in the effort to make it a good experience.
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The master schedule is in the process of creation. Tentatively there were two sections of AP Language and Composition... but I told the scheduler to go ahead and just make one. At least half the sign-ups drop over the summer because they don't do the summer assignment. It's 10% of the fall semester grade, so they'll drop the class once they realize an A is no longer an option. The grade is way more important that learning anything or exerting effort to obtain it. Last year I had about 46 sign up... and had a class of 20 start.
I usually give out a summer contract to gage how many will be in the class. This year, however, I can't seem to get a list of students. I have to resort to just handing it out to whoever asks... I'm pretty sure it will come back to bite those who are refusing to give out the list in the butt. I will really try to say "I told you so."
Friday afternoon was pretty fun. My AP class finished The Crucible and had three options for their final project - no papers to grade! - create a board game, rewrite a scene in a different setting and something that no one choose. Who can remember before the first cup of coffee?
Only one student chose to rewrite a scene, but the board games were pretty fun! The first one was "Who Be A Witch?" It was set up sorta like clue. It was missing the vocab and plot elements of the assignment, but still fun to play. Moving on, I killed them at "Witches Pursuit". The Vocabulary questions were killer! Next year, we will discuss what makes a good question. Given a definition, it's nearly impossible to guess which word is the correct answer. I think of at least five different words that mean "the state of being unknown" (anonymous)... but the plot questions were pretty good.
Finally, we got to "Witch-Trail", based on Shoots and Ladders. My avatar was "Evil Fungal Bread", featuring a picture of a pretty mean looking loaf. The big ladder had become a rainbow colored stairway to heaven. The big slide was jail. There were also man-witches who barfed up sloppy-joes to block your path. Great artwork. On Monday, we're playing a Crucible version of Pokeman and Guess Who? and hopefully watching the scene acted out.
I'd love to do the same thing for Julius Caesar or Catcher in the Rye, but I'm afraid that those classes won't put in the effort to make it a good experience.
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The master schedule is in the process of creation. Tentatively there were two sections of AP Language and Composition... but I told the scheduler to go ahead and just make one. At least half the sign-ups drop over the summer because they don't do the summer assignment. It's 10% of the fall semester grade, so they'll drop the class once they realize an A is no longer an option. The grade is way more important that learning anything or exerting effort to obtain it. Last year I had about 46 sign up... and had a class of 20 start.
I usually give out a summer contract to gage how many will be in the class. This year, however, I can't seem to get a list of students. I have to resort to just handing it out to whoever asks... I'm pretty sure it will come back to bite those who are refusing to give out the list in the butt. I will really try to say "I told you so."
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