Dear Aubrey, We admire your tech-savvy-ness and ability to experiment with so many different digital resources.

You demonstrate great persistence and patience with technology as well, and are a great model for us all. Thank you for wonderful lesson today. Affect: Using movie trailers is a great way to get students engaged and motivated to share their learning about allusion, or any topic. Using the two music videos to start is another way to engage students early on in the lessonthey were great mentor texts. Best Practice: You showed thoughtful teaching when youas the teacherreflected on what you saw as we were working. You helped explain the process and the strengths and struggles weas the studentsfaced. You did start the lessons strongly with some mentor texts and had students discuss and share their observations to help flesh out a definition of allusion. You also did a great job being the guide on the side where you didnt take center stage for our learning. You allowed us to work on our own, but offered help and guidance as we had workshop time. Policies/Regulations/Professional Dictates: As we are looking towards the future and Smarter Balance, this activity could encourage students to become more familiar with technology. We know that students are most engaged when they are moving around, and are interacting with one another, and we need to make sure that that learning objective is clear so people dont dismiss our lesson. Extensions/Adaptations: We could see this being used with specific class literature, like a summary of a certain part of a book or novel students are reading. We could also see this with other literary elements like characterization. You could see this with social issues or research, where students have to show what they learned about global issues or different research topics. We could also see more structure with this assignment, like literature circles, with a set number of people per group as well as different roles and responsibilities so everyone is involvedfor instance using the credit roles (like director, director of photography) already defined in the IMovie feature. We also could see some integration of writing such as: doing a quick summary of ___, or doing a reflection of what role you completed. You could also do more than one literary term along with allusion and making students responsible for defining and teaching that term to their peers, and then they could do a quiz at the end. Questions Arisen:

Would students benefit from a list of directions/instructions on the board or powerpoint? How do movie trailers fit or fulfill the standards and benchmarks (while they are mentioned in the CCSS, we are thinking of
the NETS)?

How can we work together as a teacher network to create, and share student samples? How could we have students share and post with other resources beside Youtube?

Sincerely and great job! Through the Looking Glass Group