Writing Lesson Reflection

To develop and differentiate our writing lesson, we decided to have our students write their persuasive letter in partners as this will be their first attempt at persuasive writing. It has been exciting planning and implementing this lesson because it truly is tying together so many different skills. Our students are practicing their research skills through the lens of SPEC + G in order to figure out the benefits of living in their colony. Then, they are writing a persuasive letter to a relative back home enticing them to come and join them in their colony. It has required a true collaboration of writing and social studies skills.

Explorer Wordle

This wordle shows the two words "historical" and "students", which I thought was very interesting. The entire focus of this assignment was for the students to use the historical information they have learned about explorers to write narratives. The word "stronger" was also large, and that is interesting to me as well, because this was the 5th narrative my students wrote, and we really focused on using stronger word choice and advanced writing strategies like flashbacks to continue to extend their learning about the narrative genre.