How to use a mannequin in your classroom #16: Break-out lesson!
Bonjour fellow teachers! I'm excited to share a new idea with you that I tried for the first time last month. I was inspired by a presentation I attended at a world language conference on creating a "break-out" lesson. Have you heard of these? I decided to try one as part of my semester exam review in my French III class. It was a lot of work to create this lesson, and at one point I did wonder if it was going to be worth it. My students adored it though, and I thought it was fun, creative and a great way to review major concepts from the semester. If you aren't familiar with the concept of a break-out lesson, the basic idea is that groups of students are racing each other to unlock boxes containing clues which lead them to unlock the next box. Each group is racing to be the first to make it to the final box. So, one needs to create some sort of story which gives the students a reason for wanting to race to that final box. That wa...