Monday, September 20, 2010
Week 5, Pedagody Forum
The exercise on pages 72-74 in The Writing Experiment made me think of all the uses of collage in the high school classroom. Everyday, we ask the students to collage by taking bits of information needed to pass a test. We ask them to paste the bits according to no real categories at all, but instead how it will be presented on the test. But, what if we asked them to collage in order to create their own relationship between literary periods, terms, and ideas? A collage to me, and in this exercise, is a way to take things you do not understand and arrange them in a way that gives it meaning to you. What a great solution for the cram sessions and study sheets we make for the students. Next week, we are preparing for the Georgia High School Writing Test. Due to this exercise, I'm thinking how I can apply this to analytical writing. I could have students cut out images and words that will give them a visual image of what they are being asked to do on the writing test. Perhaps some will relate to this relevant exercise.
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Will you let me know how it goes?
ReplyDeleteMe too and I am really enjoying seeing how you are handling these pedagogy entries.
ReplyDeleteI am trying to work up a thesis statement/question this week for testing if creative writing can improve literacy scores. This will be an action based research project where I implement far more writing into my Drama classes to see if there is improvement in writing. My problem with using it this year is of course the major writing test will be finished way before I even get started.
If you have any ideas about other benchmarks for testing this or any literature you would like to recommend for my review i would greatly appreciate it.
I have already found a few studies and if you cna offer any help. i will be more than happy to share with you any successful findings.
In the meanwhile, good work attempting to implement these strategies. I know full well how daunting it is to do this in a regular classroom environment, especially with the writing test preasure.