Grammar Bizarre

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            For this assignment, I created a game for my students to play in order to review their knowledge of grammar. Grammar is a struggling topic for most, if not all, of my current ninth graders at the high school that I currently teach at in Florida. Which, I find is ironic because I teach in the number one school district in Florida. Thus, it inspired me to create a review game for my students to use. I

            I created a jeopardy game for my students to play both at home and in class. I had never tried to create a game before, but it was not as complicated as I thought after I came up with enough content for my game. I have included five sections for the student to choose from: direct objects, sentence structure, action verbs, linking verbs, and commas. I chose the categories because they are issues that my students here and at my previous school struggled with.

            Each category was carefully crafted to mirror the FSA (end of year state standardized test) so that the students were also preparing for their final test for their ninth grade year. I hate the idea of “teaching for the test”, but I felt as if this strategy would help them prepare for a summative in my class, prepare for the state test, and help them prepare for their 10^th grade year and beyond (educationally). When coming up with the problems, I consulted a fellow teacher (he teaches eleventh and twelfth grade IB courses) to create sentences that would truly prepare them while they have fun playing this game.

            I will use a candy incentive to motivate the students to participate and try their best when playing this game. I will also showed teacher in my PLC this game, and they all are wanting to use it in their classes to help prepare them for their summative.