I have a lesson I want to try at the very beginning of the year when we talk about quality presentation. This is not my lesson. I downloaded it from Teacher.net, but inadvertently didn't get the writer's name. BUT I am going to use it. I don't call it stealing-It's creative borrowing... If you know who wrote this let me know, I will gladly give credit.
I don't know how particular you are, as a group, about work that's turned in to be graded or published, but I figure if they've had time to go through the writing process, I expect it to be as nearly perfect as they can get it. If it would get an "A" or "B", then it's time to move on. If it's a "C," "D," or "F", then it isn't done and needs to go back for more work, conferences, mini-lessons etc. If I know the kid is trying to do something I haven't taught and struggles, I am very understanding. If the kid is doing the best he/she can, I am also the kids' biggest cheerleader. But when I've taught it, and I know the kid knows what to do, and turns in junk, then I get a little bent. My 7th graders often write as little as possible and put as little extra effort revising and fixing the final product. I just loved the metaphor this produces: Make a bowl of chocolate chip cookie dough (leave out the chips until later). When you bake them, make some w/o chips, some misshaped, some undercooked, some crumbled to powder, and some perfect. - Put them in paper bags and pass them out to the kids. Let them discuss what they see. Prompt them to make the connections. - Tell me about your cookie. - Would you want to buy your cookie at a bakery? Why? - Which cookie would you want to buy in a bakery? Why? - How is the cookie a good metaphor for the work you are expected to do in class? - Anything else that the class brings to mind. - At that point, I will discuss what my expectations are for final draft work. Tell them that the extra touches, the neat handwriting or typing, the color (if necessary) all go into producing a quality cookie...uh, paper. Kim On 7/25/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > ??? So many good ideas here. Last year, I went back to an old lesson the > kids love. In order to cover propaganda techniques, research, and media, I > created the "Cookie Selling Lesson". Students study propaganda techniques in > print advertising, TV, and radio. They then create a cookie and name it > based upon market research of their class. They create a print ad, a radio > ad, and a TV ad for it. They present these to the class, and (here's the > part the kids love) they sell it. The kids actually make the cookies. Each > student gets 5 "Haskell" dollars to spend. Each cookie costs a dollar. The > other students select the cookie by the ads. The cookies themselves are > hidden away in containers. Once purchased, they receive and can eat the > cookie. Each student keeps tack of how many they have sold and each student > fills out a survey slip about whether they would be a repeat buyer or not. > It took the last three weeks of school, and everyone loved it. > Linda in ME > > > > > > "For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved." > Romans 10:13 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ________________________________________________________________________ > AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free > from AOL at AOL.com. > _______________________________________________ > The Literacy Workshop ListServ http://www.literacyworkshop.org > > To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to > http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/lit_literacyworkshop.org. > > Search the LIT archives at http://snipurl.com/LITArchive > -- Kim ------- Kimberlee Hannan Department Chair Sequoia Middle School Fresno, California 93702 Laugh when you can, apologize when you should, let go of what you can't change, kiss slowly, play hard, forgive quickly, take chances, give everything, have no regrets.. Life's too short to be anything but happy. [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ The Literacy Workshop ListServ http://www.literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/lit_literacyworkshop.org. Search the LIT archives at http://snipurl.com/LITArchive
