Reflection of multigenres

I really enjoyed seeing and listening of multigenre projects. I have never seen so many different ideas and creativitiy capturing so many multigenres. I gathered so many ideas as to how to motivate students to write and read. I have implemented this in my classroom with “I” poems, wordless picture books, research,journals, and hands on activities. The thouroughness of the projects was awesome. By viewing everyones multigenre projects I feel that I  am better at my teaching techniques and have so many more ideas  as to how to motivate my students to become better readers and writers. The presentations were interesting and really enjoyable for listening. I have learned so much, another area I didn’t cover about my project was the fact that I have a student in my class who is diagnosed with lukemia. He just returned from Disney World through the make a wish foundation. This touches my heart because just last year, my daughter did an intern at Walt Disney World. A friend of ours had a 5 year old who was diagnosed with cancer. My daughter arranged for her to visit Disney at no cost. Make a wish is a wonderful assistance for sick children and Walt Disney would have loved to have seen these children’s faces as they attended the Magic Kingdom.

Getting back to multigenres, I saw examples of diaries, dialogues, journals, timelines,poetry,memoirs, biographies,dictionaries, and the list goes on. I think everyone did a great job implementing different sources and genres.I learned about Sarah Winchester, Paula Dean, obesity, mail order brides, civil war, civil rights, and so many I can’t count them all. I will remember what I saw and the multigenre is the way to go.

This has to be the most time consuming  project I have ever undertaken. I had intense moments to where I felt like crying but I would suck it up and continue. I planned, wrote, and revised so many times my head ran in circles. I am relieved this project is over. Now let’s get it on my blog. Great job everyone!!! A stressful job well done.