Students in Grade 10 English have been working on solving the question “How can we work together as an ASFM community to improve student life at ASFM?”

Students brainstormed four guiding/research questions from this larger question:

• How can classes be made more interactive in order to meet the needs, and attention spans, of average teens?
• How can homework policies better support student needs?
• How can we make school a less stressful environment?
• How can the cafeteria be improved to better meet students’ desires?

Students were then divided into groups based on their preferred topics, and spent several weeks researching, writing, and revising persuasive research papers on their topics which proposed a course of action for the school to take to improve students’ lives at school. Their essays will be posted to their individual student blogs later this week.

Following the completion of their papers, students worked in their research groups to create electronic or hard-copy resources to be shared with the faculty and administration at ASFM.

The electronic examples below are posted with the permission of the students involved:

Interactive Classes: http://interactiveclasses.weebly.com