Things are going well with wrapping up this year. The Hunger Games unit with my 7th graders is moving right along and our plans for our Mock Hunger Games are almost done! My 8th graders are starting their mystery unit with And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie. And my two World Literature classes are giving the Literature Circle approach a whirl with their literary foil novels (Frankenstein, Ender's Game and Hound of the Baskervilles).
I'm really looking forward to next year and the new approaches we'll be taking. I'm super excited about both the Reading Workshop and Writing Workshop techniques I'll get to do. Right now, I'm up to my neck in trying to find enough high interest, age-appropriate books to fill our classroom library. Our goal is to have about 20 books per middle school student in the end. That would be 720 books!! Our initial goal is to get to 12 books per student this year. I'm currently at 286 books, so I still have quite a way to go.
I've been trying out some of the writing workshop lessons with my current 8th grade and World Lit classes. So far, things seem to be going well. My World Lit class will be submitting their rough drafts of their first assignment and their first writer's notebook page on Tuesday, so I'll post back and let everyone know how that went.
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