Melissa introduces Place Out of Time

Hi there, This is Melissa L., Rookie reporter. This week the 5th grade teacher, Charles Jason Depasquale (Jason), has made changes to the classroom blogging system. Instead of him doing everything, he thought up the brilliant idea of the students writing the blog, seeing the lessons through our eyes. When the sign-up sheet went up, I immediately put my name in big letters. But thats enough about me. Lets get learning!

Place out of time

(POOT)

This week, Karl Sikkenga’s class and Jason’s class started to do a U of M program called “Place Out Of Time”, Or POOT, for short. The main outline for this program is as follows:

The students pick out a historical figure of some importance and write a short summary of their lives. The students explain what they did, why they did it, their pet peeves, Their views, and all that jazz. When they have done that, They go deeper into their characters lives and really think about why you picked this person and make it a lot more emotional and real for you. Then you have a chat with, well, whoever. It could be a UM professor or your best friend or a UM student or the person your locker is next to. (In our case, hooks, not lockers.)

I think that this program is very interesting and that we, as students, will have a lot of fun With it.

Well, that’s pretty much it!

Ta-ta for now!

Melissa L., SK student.

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Thank you, Melissa!


For more information on the Place Out of Time simulation, visit their website! There, you'll find some helpful introductory videos there explaining the project. Just like this one:








As Melissa mentioned, we'll all be contributing to the blog from now on. Our current schedule calls for two student entries a week (in addition to my own regular entries), so expect to hear a lot more about POOT and more in the weeks ahead!