In this class we are teaching English Language Arts Writing and Reading concepts. We will review letter sounds and how words are read/spoken as well as the concept of rhyme. In addition we will review the main components of stories: characters, setting, and plot. We will further compare reading and writing topics by engaging with Narrative Poems; the following by Shel Silverstein: "The Acrobats," "Homemade Boat," "Ickle Me, Pickle Me, Tickle Me, Too," Jimmy Jet And His TV Set," and "Love." Then we will use our knowledge to write a group narrative poem on Powerpoint..

The format of the class is as follows:
-Check In/Attendance
-Reviewing Rules, Outschool and Class based
-Reading Review: Break down words into sounds, review vowels and consonants
-Rhyme Define: Ending sounds being the same
-Play a Rhyme Round Robin Game
-Hear Shel Silverstein Titles, Class guesses Rhyming Words they Might hear and What the plot points might be based on titles. READ!
-Talk about how poem is different than story (focus: formatting, grammar, punctuation)
-Talk about how poem is the same as story (focus: themes, narrative poetry plot arcs, main ideas)
-Brainstorm for our group poem: characters, setting, plot
-Write Narrative Poem

I will teach by doing a lot of conversational and check in discussion. I am a combination of direct teaching (where I am showing or modeling something) and student directed engagement (allowing questions and tangents to be followed, students showing each other) in other words, I like collaborative learning as much as possible over the teacher on a stage concept. I forsee learners really interacting with each other because of my teaching style. We will do a lot of games and interactive learning and the main project is a group writing activity. 

Required experience is just good participation. Students who like to raise their hand, talk in class, and share will do better in this collaborative style, cooperative class.