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Holy on-time homework, Batman!

How I got my students to turn in their assignments on time

Posted byMarilyn YungFebruary 22, 2021February 23, 2021Posted inMiscellaneous, The Teaching Life, Writing InstructionTags:Accountability, Education, Homework, Missing assignments, teaching2 Comments on Holy on-time homework, Batman!

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Trying out @taylor_mali’s #metaphordice. Planning to use the dice with my new poetry class this week… will be posting!

Last spring, I experimented with something new using The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane and here it is: I wanted to introduce my students to literary impressionism by noticing Crane's use of color and then creating a collaborative visual representation of the novel. My bio has a link to a post in my blog with tons of pictures, resources, some background, etc. Each student analyzed two consecutive chapters of the book and then created a representative collage. Here are photos of chapters 7-8 and 15-16, respectively, plus the entire book in last shot. Of course, there are improvements to be made, but this was an interesting first attempt.

I tried #firstchapterfriday all year long! (Okay, we missed a few due to random things.) Something else I tried: tying FCF to my weekly vocabulary mini-lessons on Thursdays. I would find a new word in my first chapter selection ahead of time, teach it on Thursday, and then have fun watching heads pop up around the room when students heard the word as I read aloud the next day. I think I’ll do FCF again next year. Several students told me it was something they looked forward to every week.

Let’s hope enough students sign up for Tsunami: A Poetry Experience, my new poetry class next fall! I want to make it a fun and motivational way to end the day... especially when I roll out the coffee cart to get the juices flowing. (My school has a four-day week, so we have a longer than usual school day and that last hour is l-o-n-g.) What better way to end the day than with some poetry?!

When a student decorates her envelope that will hold her sketchnotes from our end-of-year Gatsby unit. Over the next week or so, we’ll listen to the audio and decorate pages from each chapter of the book. And of course, the 2013 movie will top it off!

About ekphrastic poetry... “The arts challenge us with different points of view, compel us to empathize with ‘others,’ and give us the opportunity to reflect on the human condition,” write Brian Kisida and Daniel Bowen of The Brookings Institution in their article, “New Evidence of the Benefits of Arts Education.” To be sure, empathy and other soft skills, such as understanding and tolerance for ideas different from our own, are always in demand.

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