Writing teacher, and I can assure you not all value is in writing essays. The tweet POV assignment is great, quick supplemental work.

The student really has to think like the character, mimic their language and thoughts, and practice being concise!

I do these assignments and since they are so short, I require perfect grammar.

Don't knock what you clearly haven't thought through.

Anonymous wrote:I’m a middle school English teacher. I sometimes have my students write pretend Tweets or Instagram captions where they pretend to be the character of the book we’re reading.

what is the value in that. Why not have them write a journal entry instead so they can learn to actually write.

Anonymous wrote:One post parents say that the teacher is boring, not creative, does not engage the students interest. Now this post says, stop the creativity and what interest the student. Just go to the basics.

Teachers will always lose.

You realize those are different people though, right? Teachers will always lose with someone - humans will always lose with someone too.

The assignment really is silly, but likely was well intentioned.

One post parents say that the teacher is boring, not creative, does not engage the students interest. Now this post says, stop the creativity and what interest the student. Just go to the basics.

Teachers will always lose.

Teachers have to figure out how to get the attention of students.