Más horas en el día: a PBL/TCI story
I was going to write a story about a chocolate diet for the Mejor Yo unit. But after the setup, it turns out all the muchachos wanted to focus on were three types of improvement: time management, money management, and exercise.
So instead of chocolate, the protagonist is looking for more hours in the day to get everything done.
It had been a while since I’d written a story, so I took the steps I followed for my last story, but also with a little more planning, especially with the vocabulary. I picked a few words out from a few different places:
- their vocabulary notes
- WordReferenced words in bold from homework assignment #1
- the blog/infograph for their first IPA of the semester
I’ve also been working on the presentation of the stories. I gave up on the one-page format several stories back, and I like how they make a little book when I print them as two columns on a landscape page. I had just been having the kiddos write the title on a blank page, maybe with the target structures, maybe an illustration.
I decided in the end that the title page was perfect for three things besides the title:
- the target structures
- action images like I use for other verb pages in the interactive notebooks to go with the target structures
- plus a legend for the class’s personalized choices
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| The actions are for debe, hay, and son. |
(I guess that’s Padre Tiempo? Or El Rey de las Horas? I contemplated putting an Egyptian Michael Jackson–Do You Remember the Time? Who else might control the length of the day?)
So here’s the story about the quest for more hours in the day (spoilers: there’s a different solution than longer days.)
