Today is "Fun Friday" so we will give the students the option of either watching "How To Get Away With Murder" as well some mini Mock Trial Example videos. I feel like this was a very productive week for our class, because we are finally in the beginning stages of our end product. I hope that next week is a very productive week as well.
Caro and I were both out of town due to college visits however, I emailed Colleen early in the morning to let her know, and left Silvia in charge., so the class was fine without us. We asked Silvia to tell the students to research with their final mock trial groups and to find make a list of the pros and cons depending on which group they are in.
So now that our topic is finalized, we had to put the students into either the prosecution or defense team. We put all the names into a bowl and picked out the group randomly, however we did change it a little and put our input so that both teams would be equally as strong. Most of the students were happy with the groups that they had received however some were somewhat annoyed with it, however the groups were finalized and we couldn't change them anymore.
Today was the day we decided what our final mock trial topic was going to be. It was fairly easy considering the fact that we immediately narrowed it down to topics, which are "Online Monitoring" and "Discrimination" however "Online Monitoring" won by 11 votes. All the student seem to really like the topic and I am excited to see how the end product turns out.
Today was our 3rd' "Fun Friday" and we decided to continue to watch " How To Get Away With Murder", play games, and talk to get to know each other a bit more. It was a pretty easy day , and a great way to end the week. Next time we need to officially pick our final mock trial topic and I am somewhat nervous on which topic the students will pick.
Today I ran the class by myself, since Caro was not here, however this isn't the first time I have done it so it was not bad at all. We continued to research today because on Monday we want all the groups to share everything they have found online, and convince us on why we should choose the mock trial idea they researched. The students worked very hared this week and I am happy what all the work they have produced.
We continued our research today, however we wanted to switch things up again, so we asked all the student to pick the topic they wanted for their mock trial the most, and from there we created new research groups. The students then had the rest of the day to research. We asked them to create a google doc and share among themselves, and Caro and I. It was a very productive day, and the student seem to really like it.
Today we narrowed down our list of 10 possible mock trials down to 5, we then voted and narrowed it down to 4 ideas. We wanted them to start researching these topics and go more in depth so we put them into research groups. They got to work, and at the end of the day, each group shared one fact that they learned that day.
For today's class we had our very first potluck. It was really cute to come together as a class and just eat and enjoy the last hour of school. We had chips, salad, cookies, tortilla chips and salsa. We set up the table "family style" and as we ate we had multiple conversations about different topics. We even talked about politics, which escalated very quickly considering the fact that we have Rafie in our class. But overall it was a great end to a great week.
I finally was able to see my students again today. We dedicated today's class to picking and voting for which topics we wanted to possibly have a mock trial about. We narrowed it down as well as came up with new ideas.. I feel like today was the first day that I realized that running a 6th period by yourself is harder than it looks. It is difficult for me to sometimes grab the students attention mainly because I guess they see me as a student too, so why should they listen to me, however after we talked to them about paying attention, they finally gave me the attention that I wanted. Today was a very productive day, even though we had some little issues here and there. We got a lot of things done and I strongly feel like we are moving towards the right direction.
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