Tag: Twitter
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Proverbs
In an effort to help them understand the genre of Wisdom Literature. I asked them in their groups to discuss: What is the most useful advice you got before coming to college? What is the most useless advice you got before coming to college? What is the funniest advice you got? I then asked them in…
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United Monarchy
In their groups, the students read passages from 1 Samuel that read as in favor or against kingship. The students then had to develop a “tweetable” campaign slogan. We then went through each groups slogan and discussed what they were trying to capture in their slogan and why? The activity seemed to work well. They…
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Formation of the Canon
I had the students select their three most “significant” movies (without defining what I meant by significant). They then found a partner and selected a consensus three movies. They then formed groups of four and selected a consensus four movies. They then formed groups of eight and selected a final, consensus list of the five…
