Classroom Prep/Set-Up… Unit Planning – Honors 10 16 Oct 201521 Oct 2015 I was extremely nervous about teaching tenth grade Honors English at first, but once I started planning out what I was going to do, I felt a lot better.Continue reading…
Assignments… Compare & Contrast – Tuesdays with Morrie Movie 15 Oct 201519 Oct 2015 My kids finished reading Tuesdays with Morrie! Yay! To complete the unit, I wanted the students to watch the movie and to compare the book and the movie--understanding literature through multiple…
English 10… Who Is Morrie Now? 15 Oct 201519 Oct 2015 As a closing and wrap-up activity for Tuesdays with Morrie, I asked my students to take out their drawings from the beginning of the semester, there initial pictures of who Morrie was.Continue…
High School… Journal – Community and Justice System 15 Oct 201519 Oct 2015 My sophomore Honors English students had just finished reading Part I of To Kill a Mockingbird, and as a transition activity, I had them journal for the first 10-15 minutes of class…
American Seminar 11… Unit Planning – American Seminar 15 Oct 201521 Oct 2015 Planning for classes became a daily, weekly, and monthly ritual as I started student teaching. As my first placement comes to a close, it's been exciting to see how far…
Mason City High School… My Kids Say the Darndest Things, Part 4 14 Oct 201521 Oct 2015 Oh boy, being a high school student teacher at age twenty-two, while looking like a high schooler myself, has its challenges for sure! One of those is when a typical…
