Reflection of Friday, March 25th and Monday March 26th

I wasn't feeling well today, I was extremely drained from the activity the day before. This assigment was to be a support for what we had already covered, and students could easily talk quietly while working on the assignment. This is how it started off first period, a little more off task 2nd period, and by fourth period a good number of students were not taking advantage of the time given to them. By the end of fourth period I already knew how many of the students felt about the assignment and I myself didn't like it, but we were already committed to it and were going to finish it out. Especially because students had ample time to complete it, we ended up devoting two whole periods to the assignment. In the future I probably won't do this activity again, or I would greatly modify it. Modification Ideas: 1) Put students into groups and have each member of the group contribute a segment to the flipbook. This will cut down on the "busywork feeling" 2) Along with this modification I would enlarge the size of the paper because the small flipbooks don't even flip through smoothly, they stick and skip 3) Keep a large, high quality flipbook to use for demonstration and enhancement for students 4) Give students options of a project to do-must make all of the options equally matched in difficulty and time requirements