My sixth grade Language Arts class was probably the most dull class I have ever taken. Trust me when I say this--my class was much more boring than your sixth grade Language Arts class. We spent an hour of every day, five days a week, filling out repetitive worksheets and reading out of the textbook. Grammar, spelling, vocabulary...You name it, it was on a worksheet. Our class would get excited about watching a five minute clip of School House Rock. It was quite pathetic.
I feel that there are so many ways that technology could have improved this class. A smart board would have done wonders for the lectures on sentence structure, spelling and vocabulary. My teacher could have posted various sentences up on and called us up to the board to edit the sentences. We could have also created our own sentences and have our fellow students edit them. My ninth grade English teacher had my class do this, and we all found it to be extremely effective. Quizzes or games on the computer would have also been a great idea for practicing spelling and vocabulary. Instead of filling out worksheet after worksheet, we could have played matching or fill in games where we could actually apply the information and techniques.
