Only had a few students take me up on January's ANAGRAM CHALLENGE for their writer's notebook. They loved the mentor text so much, but only a few went online to explore their own anagrams.
This month the challenge is based on creating ORIGINAL SUPERHEROES, and I already have numerous students well under way with the first half of the task.
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If I were to rate this month's Superhero lesson against my other lessons, I think this one is pretty strong based on two of my seven elements. The mentor text (Superhero ABC's) is wonderful, and I found a bonus way to use it this last week during 7th grade enrichment, which piqued their interest in the writing assignment more. We actually diagrammed four or five sentences from the book when I spotted they needed a review of diagramming.
Secondly, my teacher model from my own notebook really grabbed their attention; this lesson has two different notebook pages to create, and it was the first one that seized them. I am hoping the second one does the same. Not sure what it is about superheroes that grabs my kiddos' attention, but it does.
--Corbett
