Me! Me! Me! Yes, that is what a teenager craves...to be the center of attention, A level three Spanish teacher at NCHS captured this with a project purchased from Teachers Pay Teachers titled, "El Camino de Mi Vida".
Instead of a simple time-line of events in the course of a teen's life...or a PowerPoint with pictures - real or imaged:)...specific events - preterit tense focus - in a student's life where spaced out on a road. As you can see from the examples some roads just meander, others are designed to INDOT specifications, and others have multiple intersections and merge lanes:)
Once the visual were complete, students wrote sentences to accompany the points along the road. Finally, students were grouped and shared their Roads of Life with peers as the teacher walked from group to group scoring the oral presentations.
Group presentations support student engagement and give the teacher a better sampling of all students' abilities. They are a much more compact use of class time and also lessen the public speaking fear.
Ladies & Gentlemen, start your engines as we drive El Camino de la Vida!
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