A powerful skill for students to be able to master, especially by eighth grade, is the ability to reflect and synthesize information. As students finished out their units on perseverance (Hunger Games for my section) my co-teachers and I wanted to create a final reflection to see how they connected their novels, people they researched, and collaborative discussions.
I created an assignment on Google Classroom and we spent the first few minutes of class, before moving into the House on Mango Street unit, letting students reflect and synthesize what they’d learned over the past six weeks.
