At our latest meeting, we discussed our efforts to promote our Senior Exit Projects which require our students to produce a multi-media report on a career of their choice. Once again, we have been working on aligning our separate efforts into uniform expectations for all of our classes.
We discussed some of the excellent,positive proposals created by our students.At the same time, we deplored the lack of response from a few students. A major portion of this project is a 1500-word MLA research paper on an issue related to their career. Successful completion of this project is prerequisite for graduation, as well as a preparation for further study. Our group also examined the propriety of such a mandatory requirement for all students.
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It's often very stimulating to get together and compare notes, etc. We had an excellent discussion about senior exit projects and the kinds of responses we're getting from students.
We started reading "The Sisters", by James Joyce today and had some very good preliminary results with our presentation.We began the lesson with a fine art exhibit which had some themes running parallel to the Joyce story. This stimulated much interest and we allowed students to freely associate about content and symbolism.We followed up with an anticipation guide, then guided instruction using think-aloud reading strategies.We were very impressed with the student responses to the lesson.
Tom
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