To say that my students are obsessed with Kid President would be an understatement! Because this week has been our state tests (the CRTs), I had them watch his pep talk. They begged to watch the other videos he has, and I told them if they did their best during the tests, we could check them out in the afternoon. When we watched the video below, I stumbled upon a writing assignment! Gotta love that - best part? They WANTED to write! Even better!
Here is the video we watched:
On the video, Kid President asks:
He originally asked the question on Facebook, and here was one of the responses he shared:
My students asked if they could respond as well. I told them that if it was ok with their parents they could follow Kid President on Twitter or Facebook - a few said they would and a few said they weren't allowed to. One of my gems asked, "Couldn't we just write about it?" Love when they give themselves an assignment!
I made this quick brainstorm template on the Smart Board:
Then it was time for some turn and talk with their partners to fill in some ideas of what would make the World more awesome. I listened in and had a few volunteers write their thoughts on the board.
Here was our final product:
Then I turned the students loose to brainstorm independently in their notebooks. Here are a few brainstorms. I love how they used a variety of graphic organizers to brainstorm.
We will use our brainstorms to compose an essay and also a tweet similar to the Facebook responses shown in the video - it will be a great way to work on summarizing! I will show you their final work next week.
