A New Way to Learn

A New Way to Learn
I chose the story “Macbeth: The Musical” by Mr. Fisch. I really enjoyed this article. It’s about a bunch of students who read Macbeth and then have the idea to turn it in to a musical. It sounds really fun, all of the students worked together to create lyrics and different notes for different parts to create suspense. I normally hate reading but I think it would be fun to turn it in to a musical. I have a hard time paying attention but this would be so helpful because it is actually fun and not boring. I think that’s so cool how they thought of a way to make class educational and also fun, normally that is really hard to do and I didn’t think they would be able to ever make a boring book fun. After reading this I got me thinking about how we could change our classes to make them fun but still educational. For math you could have competitions for who could solve the problem first and whoever won could get a piece of candy, then it might encourage people to work harder. For history we could do little skits about whatever we are learning or we could play jeopardy, but all of the questions would be about the unit that we are on. For science I really think that hands on experiments would be the best. Science would be so much more fun if we did experiments like you see people do in movies where they out to liquids in a beaker and it starts to foam or something. I got really excited when I was going into high school because I thought we were going to do stuff like that but instead the teacher just talks and we listen. And last I think for language arts we should also do the musical thing just because it sounds so much fun. Although since you can’t really do anything fun for test you could do what my elementary school fifth grade teacher did. Whenever we had a test if you only missed two points or less she would give you a soda, and we called it “The Pop Club.” It was really fun and I think that would encourage a lot of people to study for tests and do better. If we did at least one of these I think that would make school, or at least that class, a lot more fun.