At least it's not another PowerPoint. Not that I'm still looking to try to argue that PowerPoint is pointless, I already lost that battle, I just found it annoying. This seemed a little simpler to me, even more accessible. In my view this gives a voice to the lesson plans that we put out there. We’ll wind up giving countless assignments to our kids, but we know just how confusing they can be. How many times have you gone home and read through an assignment sheet only to be just as confused by the end? Assuming it isn’t just me, I think we can all agree that any extra help provided is well worth having. That’s something I see here, the potential for teachers to give more of their own support to a lesson.
This is some of the potential that I saw when choosing to utilize the poem from Khalil Gibran. This poem means a lot to me, it spoke to me during times of need and loss, so much so that I volunteered to read it at my own Grandfather’s funeral. And with any work that I’d come across in an English class, I’d like to know what works mean the most to my students. Obviously, it doesn’t have to be a work like this. It could be a dirty limerick for all I care. But I’d like to know, in their own words, what a work means to them. And maybe I’ll have them record a podcast of their own. I’ve always thought that some works can have an even greater impact when their read aloud.
Good idea for use with students. Providing students with a voice is important, especially when classtime is short and does not allow all students an opportunity for input.
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