Shakespeare had his first adventure of the year. He is so glad that the students are back in school. He gets so bored over the summer! He sat in to observe the seventh grade AT Literature class as they peal the layers of David Sedaris's "Me Talk Pretty One Day." The students read an excerpt of the book, which, was edited for a middle school audience.Students created groups where each person assumed a role. The roles are discussion director, person in charge of summarizing the group discussion, character tracker, and teacher.
The group shared their contributions through verbal discussion and reported to each other and Mr. Smid in real time using Google Apps in Google Classroom. Students are learning class culture and how to effectively communicate points as well as discerning important information that needs to be reported from verbal brainstorms and discussion. They also learned to synthesize multiple viewpoints into one interpretation. This is not Shakespeare's first introduction to Chromebooks, and he is starting to get the hang of Google Apps. As a Renaissance man, Shakespeare loves to learn new technology. He wishes that he had so many great tools for communication when he was writing!
