By Hannah C.
Many people have at least heard of the activity of an escape room. It is where people are locked (or just contained, as legal issues would consider it kidnapping if it was really locked) into a room and given an allotted amount of time to answer clues to get out. Versions have been made to be for the 1900’s, or a book character's room, but some even have academic purposes, too. On Team P, students were able to participate in the Grammar Escape Room! Working in pairs, they travel to the seven different stations set up between both Mrs. Allen and Mrs. Stine’s classrooms. These stations were devised of a grammatical paper that covered certain subjects each student had learned throughout the year. These being, sentence structures, verbals, misplaced or dangling modifiers, clauses, and even identifying functions of noun clauses. Each of these sheets had students write the answer letters -a,b,c,d,etc..- and then these codes would be entered into a quiz in Schoology. After each of the seven codes would be entered, the quiz would mark the cypher as wrong or right. Between you and your partner, you would be allowed four tries on the quiz. After this, there would be a final paper of grammar questions you two would need to answer. After these were solved correctly, you then officially escaped! Against the common idea that all thing related to school can be boring and dull, this activity was challenging and encouraging for students to test their grammar knowledge. As a learner myself who participated, I found it very fun and enjoyable, although I was just short of escaping. For future classes, I would certainly share the idea with teachers and try to find your own room to escape.
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