Ok, I am ready to begin the new year. I have been thinking about the theme of relationships and specifically maturity. I am going to begin the year with making a list of what makes a person mature. I am going to put the students into pairs for the following exercise. Then I am going to give the students pictures of famous people (Brittney Spears, Tom Cruise, Tiger Woods etc..) and I'm going to have the students put the pictures in two groups: Mature and Not Mature. After they make their groups, both people must agree, we will discuss how they chose which person to put in each group. These ideas I will use to begin our class list of Mature Traits. From here I will have the pairs discuss a time when they had to act mature. Then I will open the floor for all students who want to share what they discussed. After I will have some kind of writing assignment that will be used as a pre test for writing.
Any one have ideas, I would love to make this a great opening lesson so all the students will buy into it.
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I used your idea, Jill. It worked out very well. It took us 2 days to get through the discussion and photos. Then we went over the list of traits from the appendix. I'm working on the writing now. I told them a story about me and how I had to mature when my Mom went back to work when I was 12. I used it to do a sample paper. Tomorrow we are going to start writing their papers using the 4 square. We STILL have not started reading the book. Hopefully by the end of the week!
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