Another Student!

I worked with "Brenden" on one of my recent trips to Classic City. I really liked working with him because I got to really help him to get his assignment done. He was very respectful, well spoken, and quiet. I really enjoyed working with "Brenden" and would love to work with him in the future.

"Brenden" and I worked on his assignments for Arthur Miller's The Crucible. I didn't read The Crucible when I was in high school so this was great for me because I got to learn too! We used two programs while doing this assignment. The first was GAVS, which stands for Georgia Virtual School. This website had a breakdown of the play, various assignments, questions, and activities to help the students better understand the play. The second program we used was very interesting and I had never seen it before. It was called Padlet. 

       "Padlet is an Internet application that allows people to express their thoughts on a common topic easily. It works like an online sheet of paper where people can put any content (e.g. images, videos, documents, text) anywhere on the page, together with anyone, from any device." 

Each student was to create a padlet page and that their teacher could later look at and grade their work. Padlet was really easy to create and work with, it was a great resource for me to learn about. "Brenden" had to research different aspects of the play, including  a background on the author, information about Senator Joseph McCarthy, and the Salem Witch Trials. The questions he had to answer were on GAVS, accompanied by links that contained the answers. "Brenden" is a slow typer, so we worked together to find the answers on the various webpages, and then he would dictate his answer to me while I typed them into his Padlet. We were able to get the entire assignment done! He worked really hard, and his answers were well thought out. 


For the final portion of his assignment, we did a virtual witch hunt, to better understand how the Salem Witch Trials worked. The website was very interactive. You were given a name, and then various prompts and you chose your answers and saw what happened to you at your trial. Unfortunately, "Brenden" was found to be a witch and was sentenced to be hung! We liked working through the prompts together and had a few laughs over our fate. It was a great day at Classic City and I look forward to working with "Brenden" again.