It's Monday and I'm excited to see the students again. Just like on the first day, many of them are really early and come in to chill until class starts, or at least that's what they think. I had them set the room up into groups and then I let them relax for a few minutes.
Today I began by having them fill out a flyer sheet for a bad flyer that I had from our planning week. The sheet asked them to identify the author, the audience, good and bad traits, etc. The students did well and identified both the really great things about the flyer and the horrible flaws that become apparent very quickly. I then had them review a packet of flyers that all advertised the same kinds of things and decide which flyer in the packet was really good and which flyer was really bad. They did really well with this, too. I even encouraged them to find bad traits in the good flyers so that they could see that even well thought-out flyers can still be better.
I used this activity to introduce them to the first project and had them look at their own flyers and decide, in a contest format, which flyers were the worst ever. The students seemed to enjoy this part of class, yet they struggled to come up with solid reasons and make decisions between two bad ones. I tried to support them in all of this.
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