So this week, my "big" assignment was having my students write their own epic poem. After having them create an epic hero and a monster for said hero, I allowed them time to craft their battle scene between the hero and the monster. Now before this, we went over some qualities of epic heroes and epic poems and I assisted them in the process of creating all of this.
I am happy to report that it seems all of the students really enjoyed the assignment and were able to get into it and make something really interesting. Overall I think this assignment was a success and I will be trying to do more things like this in the future to help supplement the overarching lesson I am teaching (in this case, Beowulf). The only thing I would do differently next time is to have the students do this individually instead of in a group. This way, each student would be responsible for their own work and it won't fall on one or two people in the group like I feel may have happened once or twice.
-Mr. T
Glad to hear this worked. It's my kind of assignment, both as a student and as a teacher! Think about even more options next time, too.
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