So, we're in that time of year that review and review and review seem to be the focus of our plans. Review games, review tests, review homework and review group work. After a while, it seems meaningless, boring and I think less and less effective as we force it on our kids.
We decided to read a play last week instead! We still reviewed, we still did games, we still took tests but we broke it up with some plays. While reading the plays we dissected the story, the words and the illustrations. Both plays we read had some olde English words that we had to discuss, why did the author put them in there, why was she writing the story that way, what did they mean and translate into? We also picked apart scenes and how they related to stanzas and chapters.
Unfortunately, this didn't lend itself to have any artifacts, but our discussion was pretty involved and the kids loved acting out their parts. I didn't realize I had such a dramatic group until I gave them the chance to be someone else and read with expression!
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