10-11+MAS+Ruby+Pate+(S1)

In this unit my 6th Grade Language Arts students focused on the new vocabulary in a read aloud - //Grandfather's Journey// by Allen Say. The words they focused on were enormous, bewildered, inference, astonishing, and marveled. The students were introduced to WallWisher. We used this to post the definition their definitions. On the wall, students found directions for the activities for the read aloud. I also posted a dictionary link on the wall for the students to use. I worked with a total of 4 students on this unit. We were able to use the classroom laptops for the activity. I projected my screen on the board, so they were able to see when a new sticky had been posted. I wanted to keep the unit simple since it is my first time. And, I didn't want to overwhelm the students with the new technology. Using WallWisher was a the perfect place to start and for them to share their lesson information. Each student was assigned a vocabulary word that they were responsible for posting to the wall for the rest of the class. They liked this process because it allowed the group to share the work. The students suggested we do this for Social Studies, that each person take a part of the social studies guide and post in on the wall to help each other move through the Social Studies material in a timely manner. The students really had a good time with the unit. The only area of concern was that the Wall would freeze periodically and cause delays in students seeing their post approved.
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