We read Treasure Island early in the eighth grade year. I usually have students share some research on pirates and their lifestyle for background. I like the idea that on Wikis all the work is on one page for all the students to see. I can assign each of them a job in completing a page of pirate research. A running vocabulary could also be maintained by the class. They will have easy access to the page and everyone's work will be useful and there for everyone to see. Knowing there is a large audience for their contributions, I think, will be more motivating.
But, I don't want to wait until next year. We are working on poetry right now. Perhaps I could put a poem on the Wiki, with a list of literary terms that are employed by the author. The group could look for metaphors, similes, allusions, etc. I might want to try something simple soon.
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That sounds like a great idea. It would be a small perhaps less complicated way to try out using a wiki in the class. One of my favorite poems is "Mother to Son" by Langford Hughes. Here's a link: http://oldpoetry.com/opoem/10388-Langston-Hughes-Mother-To-Son It uses an extended metaphor.
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