We started off meta talking about homework and stuff. Students haven't turned in anything. More than half the class is failing right now and we're coming up on the midquarter assessment. Lovely. Anyways, we started off finishing up on what we were doing for the class project and hammering out the details. Our main lesson was talking about communications and I messages. We started off breaking them into groups and then having those groups come up with feeling words for 5 minutes. Then we made a board full of their feeling words. Then we discussed sharing feelings as opposed to blaming. We showed them an overhead of I messages vs YOU messages. Then we had them fold up paper into 4 squares and write an I message to their friend, a relative, a classmate, and a teacher. Finally we had them review their I messages in their groups and change any YOU messages to I messages. This is a cool exercise that we could have executed better but the class is a bunch of slugs. We are going to have to make a seating arrangement cause this isn't working out. There are a lot of knuckleheads in the class. We were going to do a rules intro but we didn't get the material together in time and there were no new rule books out.
In Journalism, we started off telling people their tasks and we told them we would meet back up 20 minutes before the class was over. More than half of our "writers" didn't have any writing to hand us in. 2 weeks before our final product is made and we don't have any content. Sweet. I looked over the few writers' work that was turned in and discussed their work with them. People were being pretty active and the layout team put out a rough draft cover and table of contents from the computer. It was pretty sweet. The student led part of this class needs to be ramped up more but I appreciate this class cause we can step out of the room every so often and not have it be chaos.
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