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For many high school students, the first day of school is - all too often - a monotonous time loop. They move from room to room, listen to numerous teacher introductions, collect a pile of course curricula, hear rules and expectations, and have to answer that predictable how-was-your-summer question (again, and again, and again). Not a great way to generate enthusiasm and excitement for the year. So here are five more engaging ways to start the year right in the high school ELA classroom; they work for all grades from 8-12. If you really have to hand out course descriptions or go over rules and expectations, why not leave it for a couple of days into the course? IDEA ONE: Guided Creative Writing One of my all-time favourite first-lessons: jump right in and get students writing, writing, writing! By the end of class, students will have a whole page of writing generated, which works to eliminate the pre-writing anxiety, provide you with a sample of their written proficiency, and set the tone for creativity and productivity in your room! Instructions: 1. Arrange the room so that students are sitting individually. As students enter, hand them each a blank piece of paper, and tell them that there should be nothing else on their desks except a pen or pencil. 2. Jump straight into the exercise without any introduction. Simply instruct students to divide the page into 6 squares. 3. Tell students to pick an object (any one!) and write it in the top left corner of the first square (write small). Allow about 20 seconds for this. 4. Now, work through the rest of the squares the same way, with the following guided prompts: in the second square, write an action (a verb); in the third, write an adjective; the fourth, an onomatopoeic word (sound); the fifth, an animal; the sixth, a number. 5. Next, instruct students to turn their attention to box one, and use that word in a sentence: write it small at the top of the box (allow about a minute for this). 6. Now instruct students to move on to box two, to use that word in a sentence; even if they were mid-sentence in box one, it doesn’t matter, they must move on. Again give them a minute for this. 7. Repeat with all six boxes. 8. Now, guide students through each box again, telling them to carry on where they left off, writing as much as they possibly can. This time, give about 3 minutes a box. Break here as students’ hands may be cramping! 9. Now, hand out lined paper and explain to students that they have to take those boxes and weave them all into one coherent story! *For differentiation, you may want to give the option of only picking 3 or 4 boxes. 10. Students may be shocked or exclaim that they can’t! Take the opportunity to emphasise a growth mindset, to encourage them that it doesn’t matter; it is not graded; it is just for fun, and that you expect their story to be completely bizarre! 11. In the last 10 minutes of class, allow time for editing, or for perhaps reading stories out loud! For more ways to get to know your English classes, check out this blog by Secondary Sara. IDEA TWO: Behaviors and Expectations for Learning Student buy-in is key at the high-school level. They should be developing their own voices, and we should be encouraging them to use them! Therefore, flip the script and have them make their own goals for learning, and define their own expectations for the learning environment. After all, it is their education; encourage students to take ownership of it. Download these free printable cards for students to write their own mission statements and goals for the year, or use the following lesson: Instructions: 1. Print out a set of these posters, and place them around the room: stuck on whiteboards or chart paper. 2. Instruct students to walk around and write examples around the posters, or on sticky-notes attached to the posters. 3. Then when they are done, put students into four focus groups: one per poster. 4. These groups have to read all the contributions and then come up with 2 or 3 of the most common points or ideas (or combine different ones into these points). 5. Then review and discuss. Take down the 2 or 3 main points from each group and write these up in a list of positive "Class Norms" on the wall. 6. Throughout the year, keep coming back to these to make sure all students are adhering to the expectations they agreed on. IDEA THREE: Literature Close Annotation As an English teacher, one of my key goals is to have students fall in love with words! I want them to engage with language around them in a meaningful way: whether that is the metaphors used in sports commentary, the subtle rhetorical techniques in political speeches, or the poetry increasingly popular on Instagram. Therefore, I often start the year (or course) by having students spend a whole lesson reading a range of extracts: annotating, finding connections, and making observations. Instructions: Before Class 1. Lay out the desks of the classroom in groups of 4 or 5. 2. Collect and print sets of random pieces of text: poems, speeches, fiction, etc. You could print this set, or curate your own (one set per group). 3. Place these sets in the center of each group, along with colored markers/pens. During Class 1. When students enter, assign them to a group, and tell them to keep their desks free from distraction: all they need is pens! 2. Now, instruct students to turn to the pile of extracts on their desk; they are to spend time passing them around, reading, and annotating. 3. Instruct students that they should annotate for content (questions they have, thoughts, links to other texts, etc.), for structure (line structure, punctuation, repetition, etc.), and language (figurative techniques, word choice, etc.) - You might want to write these prompts on the board. 4. Allow plenty of time for students to share the extracts around, each annotating multiple ones. 5. Now instruct students to discuss the extracts at their tables: Which did they like? Why? Can they make connections between any of them? Which were the most different? Which did they not like? Why not? Any notably interesting phrasing or word choice? 6. Project a few on the board, and annotate with the class: discuss and demonstrate things to look for; talk about why you like them; what’s beautiful about them; what’s clever or interesting. Get these LEARNING GOAL cards HERE I hope your school year gets off to a great start; definitely check out our best Teacher Hacks for Back-To-School, and if you are looking for more ideas, make sure you read our list of nine of the Best Resources for Back to School. If you are still hungry for inspiration, you may be interested in these resources: If your Summer Vacation Were a Movie by Stacey Lloyd Beginning of Year Growth Mindset Activities by The Daring English Teacher Class Rules Posters: Famous Quotes by Presto Plans Writing for the First Days and Year Round by The Classroom Sparrow Back to School Getting to Know You Activity by Room 213 Back to School FREEBIE by The SuperHERO Teacher Back to School Survey by Addie Williams Back to School Project: Peer Interview Speech by Nouvelle ELA Back to School Collage Mobile: Get to Know You Activity by Tracee Orman Back to School Paper Chain: 30-Day Bell-Ringer or Discussion Prompts by Secondary Sara
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When you walk into a classroom, you usually see kids moving around, conversing, working together or at their desk completing an activity. Teachers welcome their students at the door with high fives or hugs. However, during this pandemic teachers' classrooms look very different. Teachers have to think of creative and safe ways to still bring
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Hey there, everyone! I have a confession. I have been doing the same first day of school activities for the past ten years... I know... with all of the great ideas out there, it's time to switch it up a bit! I've done The Kissing Hand read aloud and themed activites for years. I know it's more of a kindergarten thing... but I LOVE the story and when I started teaching first grade in my school, no one else in the school used it. Then new kindergarten teachers joined the staff and suddenly my materials and ideas were not so original. Since only one of my K colleagues used The Kissing Hand, I continued to use my stuff and tried to add some different things to make it different from what they may have done in K. In reality, it's scary for me to try something new on the first day. I had my Kissing Hand stuff down to a science. I knew how long each activity would take and that the kids would have a great first day. It was one less thing to worry about on a stress-filled day anyway. But that all changes this year!! Am I gonna worry? Goodness, no. Because the main character of our first day book and activities would just keep reading and working and singing a song. Do you know what we'll be reading yet? You guessed it... Pete the Cat. Here are the purchases I made today to get the year off to a great start. Don't you love the stuffed Pete- adorable! I had to splurge and get him! (Click on any of the pictures about to link to Amazon to order them.) I've found so many great FREE activities to go along with the Pete books. Please check out my Pinterest board for tons of great ideas. Here is just one of the ideas I'm definitely going to be using compliments of Heather's Heart. Click on the image to visit her blog and download this fantastic freebie. And I can't wait to use this little treasure! Hop on by Inspired By Kindergarten to download school tour cards. I love using a character hunt to give the students a tour of the school... makes it so much more fun! Click the cat to get your copy! Here's another great freebie for I Love My White Shoes compliments of The Groovy Teacher. Click the image below to visit Leslie's page to pick up this sequencing activity. I just know my new firsties are going to love starting the year with such a cool cat! And now for a FREEBIE from me! I recently started up my facebook page and would love it if you would swing by. You can also pick up an awesome soccer themed freebie perfect for the beginning of the year. Just click on the Fans Only tab to get your freebie! I will also throw in a copy of my Superhero Pal Math Centers for my first three new facebook fans. Just like the FB page and come back here and leave your email address in the comments. Thanks for stopping by!
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PE Exit Check | PE Self Assessment Posters | English and Spanish How did you do in PE? This is an essential question for every PE class. Get your students in the habit of self assessing how they did at the end of every PE class. Hang up these posters by the door and have students high five or tap what level they are for the day. These self assessment posters are a great visual for your gym or PE space! The self assessment is based on 1-5 with 5 being a student's very best and a leader and meeting all expectations, to a 1, a student who is struggling and needs to ask for help (framed in growth mindset). This file includes: A Google Folder with a PDF with 2 different color options and one option with emojis for printing in English and Spanish Check out these PE TEACHER MUST HAVES PE Participation Rubric | Rubric, Posters, Slideshow PE Participation Rubric PE Heart Rate Posters PE Skills Rubric PE Motivational Posters ★ HOW CAN YOU EARN TPT CREDITS FOR FUTURE PURCHASES? Your feedback is valued as it helps me improve and create better resources! Please consider leaving me a rating. When you leave feedback, TpT rewards you with credits that you can use toward future purchases. Leave feedback on resources you have purchased and used in your classes! Terms of Use This resource was created by Morgan Hernandez Health and PE. It may be used by the original purchaser for single class use only. Teachers may use this product in email, through Google classroom, other LMS, or over the Internet to their students (and parents) as long as the site is password protected. If you would like to share this resource with your colleagues, please purchase additional licenses. Thank you for respecting the terms of use. Let's be Instagram friends! Follow me on Instagram to see what I am up to in school, life, and what products I am creating. Happy Teaching
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