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Teenager Class Ideas
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tastybrain
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Teenager Class Ideas
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Hey all!
I was hoping I could pick your brains for topic and activity ideas for teaching high-intermediate level teenagers ranging from 14 to 17 years old. They are pretty sassy, precocious and smart, so I need engaging activities to occupy their attention. I �ve had some success teaching them riddles and haikus and having them write their own. I �ve also used newspaper headlines/articles, current popular music (we do a new song every month), and introduced them to interesting slang terms they wouldn �t hear elsewhere.
What sorts of things have worked for you? Any websites that have proved useful resources for teaching students of this level? Thanks a lot!
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29 May 2011
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maryse pey�
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hi dear,
explain them the narrative steps in writing. Choose themes with them, vocabulary and make them write their own story. |
29 May 2011
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anitarobi
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Absolutely - creative writing always works, as well as performing role plays (they can even write their own plays)... not to mention truth or dare games (guided, of course)... |
29 May 2011
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annelaure
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Hi! I made them write a detective story, with a murder, the suspects and the police investigation....they really enjoyed doing it, that might work with your kids as well. |
29 May 2011
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MWeed
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Circle stories can be a really useful tool with any age group. You can have a set opening line or let the students come up with them themselves. Give each a piece of paper. Each student writes a line, then hands the paper to the next. The next student writes a line, then folds the paper so only the line they just wrote is visible. Repeat this until you reach the end of the paper, or reach the end of a set time limit. The story can change in some very interesting and funny ways, and if you have a large class, it will ensure that there is plenty of opportunity for students to get a good amount of writing in. Have them focus on grammar, specifically, and you can even take a good theme from one of the stories and have the students expand on it by writing an entire story off of it themselves.
Hope this helps- it worked with a creative writing group that consisted mainly of middle-school- and younger high-school-aged kids (10-15 or so, but the older ones liked it too). Lots of fun to see how much you can change the story in just one line! |
30 May 2011
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