Survival

We are currently in the beginnings of our survival study. After completing the Marshmallow Challenge, we have begun to brainstorm what survival means and read stories of survival. Each person read a nonfiction picture book and wrote how the story was one of survival. Next, with a partner, students made a Venn diagram to look at similarities and differences contained in their stories. We are recording these and they will be posted in Moodle as podcasts in the near future. We are practicing podcasts as a result of an idea many students brought up in class -- to create a Wickliffe newspaper. After investigating we found two other classroom are possibly investigating writing newspapers, so we decided to create a "Wickliffe Weekly News" podcast. Look for more information in the near future.

In addition to comparing survival stories, we are also looking at survival events throughout history, how people survive, animal survival and qualities of survival. Eventually, each person will choose one event to study in depth about survival. We will be previewing these topics next week. Also next week, students will work in small groups to build bridges, perhaps a necessity to survival? We'll see! Stay tuned...