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killyridols
Joined: 08 Dec 2005
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 Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 10:27 pm Post subject: Diary Class; ideas please! |
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Hi, I'm going to be teaching a diary class this summer for middle and elementary school students (10 lessons at 50 minutes each). I have a few ideas for this class (reading 'Adrian Mole,' 'Anne Frank,' looking at diaries vs. blogs, writing fictional/non-fictional diaries, future diaries, 'A day in the life of..') but I was wondering if anyone has any experience teaching this sort of class; what works best at getting them writing (the purpose of the class)? Any great ideas/ or techniques would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks. Johnny in Daegu. |
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ttompatz
Joined: 05 Sep 2005
Location: Kwangju, South Korea
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| Posted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 11:13 pm Post subject: Re: Diary Class; ideas please! |
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| killyridols wrote: |
Hi, I'm going to be teaching a diary class this summer for middle and elementary school students (10 lessons at 50 minutes each). I have a few ideas for this class (reading 'Adrian Mole,' 'Anne Frank,' looking at diaries vs. blogs, writing fictional/non-fictional diaries, future diaries, 'A day in the life of..') but I was wondering if anyone has any experience teaching this sort of class; what works best at getting them writing (the purpose of the class)? Any great ideas/ or techniques would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks. Johnny in Daegu. |
What I found worked for improving the quality of their writing was to collect everyone's diary each day and choose a couple or 3 at random and put them up on the board. I would be careful to NOT embarrass any student (they all had the same notebook) by leaving out anything that was too personal and not mention anyone's name.
Then as a class exercise we would correct the writing. I would then hand the book back and let the student correct their book before I erased it from the board. They could do this while I was writing the next one on the board. Continue until the end of class.
As you get a feel for the class and they get a handle on it the whole process become very good and they go from unwilling to very willing participants in the process.
Just be careful of their personal sensibilities and you'd be surprised. I also never took NO for an answer when it came time to collect the books. This works great in classes from 8-16 students and ages from 5th grade up to about 1st year high school.
You will start to see results in just a couple of weeks. |
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