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Who Was Your Favorite?
Grade Level:
11
Subject:
Language Arts
Topic:
Creative Writing- Students will shake the dust, and get the hand muscles moving again.
Objective:
My friend Carli asks me one question every time we leave somewhere together, and it is a question that has really shaped me. If there is one thing that I personally struggle with, it is expressing sincere gratitude. This question has taught me to reflect on my experiences, paying attention more to who I had them with, rather than what I did.
The question is simple, "Who was your favorite?"
Students tend to be list writers. When you ask them what they did over break, you will get a list.
"I played video games. I went to my grandmothers for ham. I opened presents. I fell off the skateboard that Santa got me."
When students are asked the question, "Who was your favorite", it intellectually shifts the focus away from them, to someone else. It forces them to write in an entirely different point of view. For some, this is territory that is unexplored or needs to be revisited.
This question allows students to profile a character, the things they did that garnered positive attention, the way that they acted in certain situations (this person could have been the center of a room in a moment that was particularly boring for the writer).
Honors students will be hitting this question from another angle.
Answer that question, as somebody else you were with this winter break.
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