Welcome back to our (almost) first full week! I will update this post daily with what we’re doing:
Monday 9/19:
- Mindful Monday Prompt #1: Obstacles – Starting today, each Monday will start with a 10 minute freewrite about an overarching topic. The goal of this is to get students to reflect on their own lives and experiences in order to develop some self-awareness and insight. Today our topic is obstacles, where they come up in our lives, and why we are either able to overcome them or why we struggle to. This prompt can be found in the “Writer’s Notebook Instructions” folder on Schoology, but here’s a link to the running list of prompts as well.
- We are also continuing our analysis of the song “Jealousy, Jealousy” by Olivia Rodrigo by working on an annotation tool. Students were given time to annotate in class, with the last two annotations (out of 5) being individual work. If they didn’t finish in class, it was homework. If students were absent, I individually assigned them a digital version on Schoology, so they should turn it in that way.