All Swartz Of Learning

This is one of my favorite projects because I love it and my students love it! My students were still showing me their 7th grade scrapbooks in their sophomore year!

The scrapbook project can be used for any book and I have designed a rubric just for Esperanza Rising as well!

Link in bio!

One of my favorite activities at the beginning of the year is creating a class playlist!

I let every student submit 3 *clean* songs to the playlist. This gives them OWNERSHIP of our classroom.

*I’ve shared my clean playlist in my bio!

A few notes:
🎼 I still preview every song. And no, I don’t accept every submission. When they ask if certain songs are acceptable respond, “If you have to ask, the answer is no.”

🎼 I build on this classroom playlist every year so that we’re not hearing the same 20 songs every year.

🎼 I know some people don’t like listening to music in the classroom. I get it and I usually only play music while we are doing Independent work. Playing music for the entire class keeps students from getting distracted for 10 mins choosing their own song (and we get some fun sing alongs) 😉

Enjoy!