Writers craft is one of my best classes this year (although I'm fifth year so I only have 4, but still one of the best) and on a positive beginning note I have more positives to say than negatives. You know how every year you have one presentation or project that you did good on and actually enjoyed doing? Well this year I had two (I know, I'm breaking the rule for number of awesome presentations per year). I love that we get assignments to be creative, to entertain, and talk in high pitched child voices. If there is one thing I could ask for, it would be more "mini-projects" that focuses on an aspect of writing and try and use that in an interesting way.
I do feel however that there are a lack of free gifts...doesn't everyone want a shiny new pencil now and again? Oh, picture this, maybe if a student in the class has everything done, and is up to date with blogs, assignments, etc. they get facebook privileges during logging periods. Good stuff right? Maybe that's a way you could motivate people to get their work done.
As earlier expressed in the year, it seems that a lot of people in the class enjoy lyrical writing and I really think that we should try a unit on that. And when we have the lyrics all done we can record them (optional).
Remember the writing prompt that involved drawing several objects like a horse, ladder, cube and all that? I think we should do more prompts like that (more interesting).
Optional naps wouldn't hurt either
On second thought, naps should be manditory.
Okay, I give away a precious cat calendar and you folks still want more. Oh, the greed.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the feedback--good ideas and I'll work on implementing the recording option. I'm quite out of my element with the song lyrics teaching, but plan to enlist some help. Many of you wrote at the beginning of the year that you were interested in that, so I'm on a mission to give it a go.
Please don't hand in only "crap" assignments from now on due to your earlier successes. That would be sad. And messy.