Which ELA high school assignments have gone well during distance learning?

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Hi, I see no one has responded to your question yet, so I'm going to even though I don't teach high school. I teach middle school English and I have found that using CommonLit and Readworks paired texts are great for hitting certain standards. But, I also like to give them assignments that are more creative, such as blogging or journaling. So, giving them different options along with the assignments that have to be done. I have a lot of students that need to have that schedule on Google Classroom, but I have other ones that want to have more freedom in their writing. It is a tough time and I think having an ability to express oneself privately is really good for kids- for all of us! Not all of them like to do this of course, haha. Some of them don't do anything I ask them to do without a lot of begging and pleading! Of course, I am teaching middle school. I always keep that in mind😂

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thanks for the thoughtful response! Yes, i want to give my students choices in the hopes that i can entice them to do something worthwhile during this.

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Not my heavily thought out., scafolded masterpieces. The digital notebook I created. No, this was the winner, read the book , take the quiz

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I have been using the podcast Serial (season 1) I have about 67% participating. The students who are participating, love it! I give 3 days per episode.

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You are very welcome. I'm sure whatever you decide to offer them will be wonderful and worthwhile. All the best to you. 😃

I teach junior high. I have been doing daily response journal entries. For April we did a theme of gratitude. Also I have been using choice boards. I did two weeks of Civil Rights passages and they had to respond in writing. Then I did two weeks of famous activists. Next week they are reading a story from Scholastic Scope and will have 9 tasks to choose from! They will choose 5 of them. The last assignment they will do is a slide show reflecting about the pandemic. All of it translates well into paper packets for those who don’t have internet access or a computer. My students are learning new information and they have a choice about what they want to focus on.

for me, independent (choice) reading/response journals

I made choice learning boards, each with 9 different tasks. Students were to choose 3 activities from each board. The activities were mostly about writing or making connections.

Photo essays, vocabulary, & reading assignments with response questions.

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