Direct Instruction

This lesson follows on from my previous episode.

The learning intentions for this lesson were:

to write to share a range of dimensions or viewpoints
to be aware of our audience and show this in the way we write

The video shows a short review of the previous week's work, sharing of 2 Manaiakalani Film Festival movies that may be relevant to our movie script writing and some conversations between students as the collaborated on this project.

In the video, you will also see the students using a spreadsheet which we use to keep track of their tasks for a project, particularly when projects are more collaborative.

Extended plan here

Reflection

I think the biggest take away from editing the video footage from this lesson was the variety between the quality of conversations happening in different groups. They varied in different ways:

Student ability to respond to other students' ideas in a productive way.
Student ability to question each other in a critical way.
Level of inquisition - to dig deeper and look up more information online.

This really got me questioning how I can be more explicit with supporting students with conversing on a topic.

Things to note

If I was to do this lesson again, I would provide prompts for students to use in their conversations. These may be sentence starters or questions that they could use in response to one of their peer's comments or questions.

Class Site Content

Learning Intention

We are learning to:

to write to share a range of dimensions or viewpoints
to be aware of our audience and show this in the way we write

Instructions

Go to the Manaiakalani Film Festival website and watch some movies for inspiration as you write our movie script.
Open up the Jamboard from last week for ideas you can include in your script writing.
Work individually or with a friend to write a script for our movie.