Schoooooool

Some days you just feel as though you've done your job. Allow me to explain two KILLER projects I'm working on in my classes currently.

I'm covering Storytelling with my Year 7s. I taught them the process of stories - you know, the dramatic process - Rising action and climax and all. Then we read "Where the Wild Things Are." I broke the story up into sections and put the kids into groups and each group is performing their part of the story. There is a narrator and the kids just act the story out. They have no props, only two chairs, and use costumes to show the wild things and Max!

In my year 9 classes we were looking at investigations. Different groups chose different news stories and are acting out the crime. We then have class investigators that go and solve the crime. It's like those old private eye tv shows - someone walks into the office, gets help and then the detectives go and solve it!

VERY cute!