A Week of iPads in the Lit Classroom

Here's a typical week in my World Literature class:

 Monday
Grammar - students complete an editing exercise in GoodNotes, then upload to the class Dropbox
Literature - students take a short reading quiz on Nearpod. ArtRage, ComicsHead, iMovie and Paper are used for creative exercises exploring the literature. Students look up information on Youtube.

Canterbury Tales character assignment

Tuesday
Independent Reading - some students bring in their own books, while others read using the FreeBooks app on the iPads
Vocabulary - weekly pre-quiz on Canvas Instructure (our LMS), followed by a discussion of the words. We do the vocab book exercises together in-class.

Wednesday (same as Monday)
Grammar - students complete an editing exercise in GoodNotes, then upload to the class Dropbox
Literature - students take a short reading quiz on Nearpod. ArtRage, ComicsHead, iMovie and Paper are used for creative exercises exploring the literature. Students look up information on Youtube.

Thursday
Writing - Every other week, students write a formal essay in Pages and upload to Dropbox. On the off week, students have a choice of what to write and what app to use to write it. In the future, students will have more freedom in their choice writing to work on blog posts, book reviews, and contest writing.

Friday
Grammar - students complete an editing exercise in GoodNotes, then upload to the class Dropbox
Independent Reading - some students bring in their own books, while others read using the FreeBooks app on the iPads
Vocabulary - weekly quiz on Canvas Instructure (our LMS).
Exploratory - students can use any time left on Friday to explore apps on their iPads, continue choice writing, or follow their interests and learn something new. 

We are not a 1:1 school - I have thirty classroom iPads that are used for five literature classes. So far, we've not had problems with students deleting other students' work. I do make a point to emphasize uploading a backup of student work to Dropbox, in case something is deleted.

We are three weeks into our iPad deployment and student engagement is still high.