Poetry Writing

Yesterday I had my US History students write short poems about being an immigrant coming to or being in America in the 1880's. The day before I had handed out some short primary soruce poems written by Chinese immigrants during the same time. I was very hesitant asking 10th grade general history students to write poetry.

Afterwards I was completely blown away! As I read some of the poetry I was amazed at some of the names on the papers. If we had not done these during class and hand them in before they left I would have thought some had been plagiarized. Some of my most struggling students wrote the most amazing poetry.

My only mistake was reading one of my best pieces from 1st hour to my 5th hour. Afterwards about half of my 5th hour copied the very original format of the poem which was disappointing. I tried to remedy it by requiring any student that used that format to also write a haiku.

Great day in Econ

Today in econ I decide to try something a little differetn to keep the students' attentions.

First post

This is the post post to my newly created education blog. Within this blog I will highlight experiences and thoughts that I have come across. I will enter my previous journal entrees soon with the original dates of entry.