SmartBoard+slideshow+for+GANAG+lesson

This is the SmartBoard slideshow I used in teaching my poetry lessons at Sioux Falls Christian. I taught both seventh and eighth grades. The first slides are for the 8th graders; the last ones are for the 7th. I cloned a page or two that I used in both presentations. The lessons went well. The students had to highlight passages in poetry, use the pens to jot down brainstorming from the class, and visit an internet site that had a writing prompt "game." There were some glitches in getting set up. For example, the middle school language arts classroom had a projector, but when we brought the portable board in, we realized that the projector needed to be dropped down more. We switched rooms for the first three periods. Then by the afternoon, someone had tracked down a portable projector. All in all it was a good experience for the cooperating teacher, myself, and the students.