Today we focused on our Question Trail activity to help us interact with our short story terms we’ve been exploring this week. Periods 1, 4, and 6 completed the Question Trail today; Period 5 will finish during the first 10 minutes of class tomorrow! What is a question trail?
A question trail is an engaging, kinesthetic activity that gets students up and moving around the room on a “trail” of multiple choice questions. It’s one of the few strategies I have for making dreaded multiple choice practice engaging. At each station on the trail, students answer a multiple choice question that sends them to the next station on the trail. If students answer each question correctly, they will travel to all stations and complete a full circuit with the correct sequence of stations. If students answer a question incorrectly, they will eventually end up at a station they’ve already completed, which signals that they need to backtrack to determine their mistake. This gives the students (and the teacher) clear, immediate feedback.
Tomorrow we will tie up loose ends from our Playlist/Station Rotations we did the first three days of school last week. Students who finish early will have some choice learning options, including reading their library book, Membean, and NoRedInk.
We will begin our study of short stories next week; our first short story we’ll inquire into is “Raymond’s Run” by Toni Cade Bambara.
Hamilton 8th Language Arts 