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“I thought you said there wouldn’t be much paperwork,” said the sharp and precocious blond locked girl of twelve.
Yes, there was still too much paper. Why didn’t I learn from last time?
Yes, I gave out lots of paper. Yes, I babbled, though no one told me so. Whew.
Day 1 went swimmingly, despite the deluge of paper. I shall not provide mostly-blank pages for brainstorming lists anymore. I shall however continue much the same otherwise since the kids responded very well. I have full lists for each of the eight different brainstorming activities, and completed Story Maps from each of the nine students to prove it.
Kids is some smarties, I tells ya.
My co-teacher Eric Myers and I were quite impressed with the creativity and the willingness to contribute to the class dialogue.
And, as you can see by our own Story Map, we are well on our way to a riveting tale.
Until next week…