Another conversation not recorded - I've found out why now. I'm pressing the wrong 'upload' button at the end of the session. :/
As with the Year 11s, I had a conversation with the year 12s about the things we've done this year. They weren't very talkative, but I did get a few good points from them.
Last Emperor
Please, for the love off all that's good and holy DON'T teach this again! It's confusing, we don't get it, it makes no sense. We want Shawshank - we know why we couldn't have it, but that's what we wanted (it's a R16 text and I had a 14yo in the class). Do something that's English (meaning Western), not Eastern, do something where the cultures are familiar and we recognise things that are going on.
Selection of Writing
Be stricter, you're too lenient. Make us get the writing in much earlier rather than a rush at the end. Motivate us with 'you can't do anything else until you finish this'. Make it boring so we have to do it - take our devices away, take our music away, make us sit in silence, and make us write with paper and a pen. One lesson a week devoted to writing. We want to do it in class where our soccer and sports don't get in the way. We want to have a booklet with all the tasks in them at the beginning of the year so that we can see what we need to do and have time to think about them. We want the selection of writing tasks to be linked to the texts that we're studying to give us a deeper and broader understanding of the wider context.
Personal Reading Responses
eeehhhh, uhmmm....
Close Viewing
Kids were over talking by now. 7m30s was too long for their concentration spans to cope with.
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