These next two weeks will be all about addressing various learning styles. The seniors are finishing up their exam on Pygmalion and the juniors will be turning in their rough drafts of their research paper on Tuesday. This leaves me some time to work on revising and editing strategies with the eleventh graders and also presents an opportunity for creative review activities for test preparation in the twelfth grade classes.
In order to ensure the test review will be creative and empowering for the students, I will ask that they separate into two teams. Each team will create 10 study guide questions for the opposing team. After completion, I will read the questions to the opponent and if they answer correctly, I will allow them to either put an X or O on the Tic-Tac-Toe board. The students will hopefully generate challenging questions in order to keep the other team from winning.
For the juniors, I will use a variety of methods to facilitate their understanding of effective editing and revising. I will use visuals, provide audio, and allow the students to work independently. However, the most exciting activity I have planned for the week is for teaching active versus passive voice. The students will be the parts of the sentence (i.e. subject, verb, adjective). Up to eight students will stand in the front of the class while their classmates rearrange them so that the passive sentence become active. For example, "The ball was caught by her" will be changed to "She caught the ball." I'm excited to see the students up and moving around, while also studying important concepts for improving their papers.
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