The Book Project

Wednesday. Ninth grade English. The assignment: begin working on their book projects.

Ms. B hadn't given me much information about what their specific assignment was. As usual, I was told "pass out papers, they know what to do". But freshmen...

What I was able to glean was that they had been reading a book (of their choice) for a few weeks. As a final project for the semester, they were doing something with those books. 

Right off the bat, several students "needed" to go to the library to get a book. (The first girl to ask informed me she just got back after having been suspended.) Um, they were supposed to have been reading this book for a while. And, Ms. B had gone over what the assignment was going to be in the prior class, so they totally could have gone to the library between that class (on Monday--block schedule) and then.

But, again, freshmen. They do not plan ahead, especially for in class stuff.

They were basically doing prelim stuff. They were listing title of book, author, publisher, and copyright date.

I got so many questions as to how to find copyright date. Sigh.

Then they were to find the author's website and get information from that.

A few discovered Goodreads. They asked if they could use that for info. It had some of the info they needed, and it wasn't Wikipedia. (They are warned not to use Wikipedia for research.) 

I'm not sure what the whole project will entail, but it's way more interesting than the book reports we had to write when I was in school. I think I saw something about Google slides. And presenting to the class. 

Yeah, I don't know if I would want to do an oral report in class. So, maybe I did have it better. 

(Oh, the whining over the books. They got to choose their books! But freshmen will whine about everything.)