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=Welcome to the Green  Experiment! =

This wiki belongs to the students in my seventh and eighth grade pre-AP English classes. We will be learning to use it in our day to day assignments and to reflect the cencepts we are learning. What do I mean by the "Green Experiment"? We have adopted the goal of being a "paperless" classroom for the next six weeks, which begins on November 15. When I presented this challenge to my students, in each class period the first question was "What does that mean?" We decided that "paperless" means that we will eliminate the use of all paper products for assignments and classroom activities and assessments. This means no notebook paper, no copier paper, and no construction or poster paper. We will use our textbooks because, as I put it to the class, "the trees that we used to produce these are already dead." We agreed to make another exception: the use of tissues will be allowed in order to preserve the shirtsleeves of all of our cold and flu-ridden students.

Well, it is January 20, and we made our goal of a "paperless" six weeks -- 30 days of adventure. From this point on, we will be a "less paper" class instead of "paperless. That means we will restrict our use of paper and use electronic technology as often as possible, but we will allow ourselves some uses of paper for some assignments.