27/04/2019
The end of the school year makes it difficult to have meaningful instruction for so many reasons, all related to the amount of testing. Testing makes our schedules wonky, keeps valuable resources unavailable ( computers and the library) and creates nervous kids. This year, I decided with the help of my outstanding 8th graders to do something different ( and meaningful) by working on creative writing (the antithesis of testing). Since writing the first line is always so stressful, I decided to order fortune cookies for every student and then assign their fortune as the first line of their story. They loved this idea but...
The biggest concern when I told the students. ... “Can I eat the cookie?”
You have to love the middle school mind.