Thursday, 27 March 2014

Language Arts 7

Today students began the class by completing a journal write.

Students were then read a poem called Cooks Brook, by Al Pittman.


At the end, students were asked to "say anything" about the poem.  Students were encouraged to make a personal connection, connect to something else another student said, or describe a feeling.   When everyone had a chance to speak, students were asked to go back into small groups and discuss the following questions:


In order to answer the second question, we generated a list of words and play on words to help:


Finally, students were asked to share any final details about how they connected to the poem.

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