Tena, What a very cool lesson idea! I am definitely going to use this after I use Bill's project, "Who's Smarter Boys or Girls?" I do a writing assignment every winter in which the kids interview a member of the school, called "Who Works at Our School?" and this will tie in beautifully! The lyrics part will then tie in to our Poetry Unit the following month in which they analyze lyrics to a favorite song and determine if it's actually good poetry or only a good song. You may me so excited, and I know my students will be too!
I am making your project a "Two-Parter" breaking the project into an interview for Part 1, and an essay/research project for Part 2. My students are very weak in writing, so the essay is a great way to teach them the importance of good writing in a "realistic" format. They love hearing my stories about what clothes kids wore when I was in middle school, how there were no cell phones, cable TV, computers, etc. One of my goals is to teach them how to do research, and this will tie in beautifully, plus it will be hilarious for them to learn about "the past" <sigh>... By the way, this year, for the first time, we did your lesson where they became 5 again, drinking hot chocolate, eating cookies, coloring, reading picture books, and cutting out snowflakes. It was a fabulous week before Christmas break idea! The kids all loved it, and one young lady who was having surgery the day we were supposed to do it, was so sad and disappointed, we did it the last day she was in school before her surgery. Thank-you for having such creative ideas and sharing them with us!!!!!!!!!!! Laurie Wasserman, NBCT/TLN Grade 6 Special Needs Teacher Medford, Massachusetts [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
