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Captivation Station
Over the past semester, our classroom routine consisted of you entering class, looking at the board and responding in your journals to questions that I posed. Many of you seemed to enjoy this exercise, some of you tolerated it, and a few of you loathed it. The reason I challenged you in this way was to captivate your attention and channel your thinking toward the day’s learning objectives. Now, I would like to turn that responsibility over to you.

Throughout the semester, each of you will be periodically assigned to captivate your classmates with an activity that will channel their thinking toward the day’s learning objectives. I will let you know what the objectives are the class before your assigned day, and you must come prepared to the next class with the opening assignment. You will be assessed on this assignment as follows:

Here are some ideas that you may use to captivate the class:

• Journal Questions • Story - Tell a personal story to make a telling point and include a picture or video. • Humor - show a funny video, tell a joke, etc. • Quote - Use a memorable quotation to inspire and engage. • Cartoon -Utilize a cartoon to "show" instead of “tell.” • Image - Find the “picture worth a thousand words.” • Picture Book - Use an iPhoto book slide show to frame the topic. • Music -Open the session with something from iTunes. • Broadcast - Start with a podcast or news clip. • TV Character analogy- Show a TV clip or character and tell how this character might react to the new content. • Mystery - Pose a mystery to hook your audience. • Newspaper/Magazine/Web article – Clip a short article from a newspaper, magazine or website and challenge students to reflect on it. • Roleplay Exercise – Assign classmates roles and challenge them to act them out using a directed scenario. • All creative ideas welcome!

Research based strategies from: Robin Fogarty and Associates. http://applekis.pbwiki.com/Capture,+Captivate+Close