If you were interested enough to read my last post about my connections between my dance/musical theatre teaching job and the proposed set-up of a writing workshop, then I'm here to offer a bit of an extension to that ...
In my writing workshop class, we are currently (like as I'm writing this post) working on an amazing website - Piclits.com. You choose a picture and then write whatever text you'd like (they offer suggestion words, too) to go with it. It's so entertaining - and I can definitely see myself 1) using this in my classroom for my students and 2) wasting a lot of hours I should probably be doing homework or grading papers (in the future) on this website. Both great personal goals, right?
Well, if you'd like, here's one of my ideas about what a focus lesson looks like to me, personally. A little cheesy, I'll grant - but I really liked the picture. ;-)
Also, my class split into groups and we created our own piclits about focus lessons. Here's my group's:
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This one is definitely more articulate than mine! It's amazing how four minds tend to work better than one, right?
it is amazing how we can enrich each other's thinking when we put our thoughts together. :)
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