My kids are rock stars!
It makes me so happy to see my students work really hard on something. I stepped up the rigor with my ESL students recently, and am so amazed at the outcome.
Before break, my students worked really hard on a short research project comparing a decade from the 20th century to today. It was the best work I’ve seen from them thus far. This week my students completed an analytical reading essay. My 6th grade English language learners (ELLs) did amazing on this assignment. This is an assignment I stole from a 7th grade teacher at one of the top performing JCPS middle schools.
I’m so proud of how far my babies have come this year (and it’s barely the half-way mark). This week I stepped it up a notch with vocabulary, using Greek & Latin roots. I also stole this, from the same 7th grade teacher mentioned above. What can I say? I had an awesome student teaching mentor. Also, next week we begin a higher level of our curriculum materials (“Inside,” by National Geographic). I’m excited to see what happens, and excited to see where my kiddos are at the end of May.
Below are two of my favorite pictures from their research projects. The first compares Princess Diana’s wedding in the 80s to her son, William’s, wedding to Kate this year (I mean last year? 2011). The second is an attempt to compare Arnold Schwarzenegger as an actor in the 80s to a governor in the 21st century. Mayor is close enough to governor, right?
