Jace Flores Student Teacher Blog

The above is part of a creative writing assignment I assigned to my students during the Reconstruction unit. After covering the hard facts and content of this period I wanted to give the kids the freedom to express the information they had learned in a medium where they had practically complete control. The only parameter was they had to pretend they were writing about Reconstruction as if they were actually there. It was an opportunity for them to flex their writing capabilities and in a way express themselves in how they like to think of things and the world and such. The assignment also served the purpose of having them reflect on what they knew/remembered about Reconstruction, and they had the freedom to ask questions to me and Brian as well as look up information. So it was a stealth research/retention assignment where they had the freedom to approach it as they saw fit. Now not every entry was as great as the one linked above, but it demonstrates what the kids could do on their own initiative just a prompt and some information.