Monday

This week started out a little slow and rocky. Monday I decided to see how my eighth graders and I would adapt to change. We've done very well so far in class discussion so I wanted to see how we would handle group work. My idea was to cover the four chapters they read for Monday by assigning each group of four students a chapter. As a group they were to meet together. Briefly discuss the events of the chapter, pick an important scene in the chapter, illustrate that scene and report back to the group about the illustration depicted and why they chose that scene. My thought was that these illustrations could be hung up in the room and used to remind students of the plot line. The plan worked well in my head but somewhere between my instruction and their presentation, the plan fell apart.

The group work took longer than I wanted it to, illustrations weren't complete and we ran out of time to report back to the entire class. I was disappointed that the assignment didn't work out the way I had pictured it in my head but learned that I am still needing to work on refining how I communicate my transitions and instructions.