Since last week was a 5-day week, we had our regular 75-minute classes on Tuesday and Thursday and then had 40-minute classes on Friday. Thursday was a lesson on Russia. Since Friday classes were so short, I took it as an opportunity to let my students work on their public speaking/presentation skills and had them present their current events to the class. I've noticed that more and more students are becoming comfortable speaking in front of the class.
I'm excited to start the next unit on Oceania. I plan on assigning a unit project with different options such as essays/other written work, videos, songs, or artwork. Any tips on grading rubrics?
Check out this neat website I found for creating rubrics. www.rubistar.com Alot of free rubrics are available and you can even create your own. Oceania should be interesting to the students because it literally involves where they live.
ReplyDeleteSorry the link above is incorrect. Here is the right one. http://rubistar.4teachers.org/
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