Teach and Learn » Litterature http://johnfranke.edublogs.org Working to be a better learner to become a better educator Sun, 05 Apr 2009 22:46:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 Being off task is not always so bad – just a thought http://johnfranke.edublogs.org/2008/04/09/being-off-task-is-not-always-so-bad-just-a-thought/ http://johnfranke.edublogs.org/2008/04/09/being-off-task-is-not-always-so-bad-just-a-thought/#comments Wed, 09 Apr 2008 13:52:49 +0000 johnfranke http://johnfranke.edublogs.org/2008/04/09/being-off-task-is-not-always-so-bad-just-a-thought/ We are working on a Genocide unit in my World Geography course while at the same time, in their English course, the students are reading Night by Elie Wiesel.

Night by Elie Wiesel

After a lot of background work and discussing the 8 stages of genocide we began the film Hotel Rwanda. I found my self having to ask one of our students to stop reading his copy of Night and pay attention to the film.

It was a situation I had never had to confront and I very much enjoyed it. How weird to ask a student to stop reading and watch a film. Good? Bad? Who cares? It is, I believe, a testament to the wonderful things that can happen when curriculum criss crosses from one class to another

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