This week was overall a good week too. We finished up Civil rights, and we did it by playing a game on Thursday. This game I created had students challenged with matching people, and events of the past with those of the present. These events or people were things such as; Martin Luther King Jr. is too Barack Obama; or Betty Friedan is to Sandra Day O’Conner. What they students did was some high level thinking because not only did they have to match the people together, they also had to tell me the organization (NAACP, SNCC, LULAC) , and the law (Civil Rights Act 1964, Affirmative Action), that made it possible for those people in the present. Overall it was a very successful lesson. Friday they matched pictures to the think map they created over two weeks ago, and they did that wonderfully as well. Monday will be a review day for the 6 weeks test, and Tuesday we will take the exam. I am excited to see the results of the exam, so that I can see if the students actually learned while I was teaching.
