Next week I will completely take over the eighth grade classes and teach House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros. Since I will become, in my cooperating teacher’s place, one of the two eighth grade English/Reading teachers, I needed to plan and collaborate ahead of time to prepare for teaching the book. Continue reading
In the days and weeks leading up to my unit on Tuesdays with Morrie, I did a lot of instructional planning. One of my favorite ways to organize myself and get prepared to read and discuss the book with my students was to make a Novel-in-a-Notebook, which (literally) is a novel inside of a notebook—each of the pages scanned and entered into their own notebook-sized pages. Continue reading
The first step in getting ready for my classes was to create a syllabus. Continue reading
Today was my first official day of teaching! Yay! I survived! 🙂
No, but in actuality today was New Mohawk Day, a day dedicated to freshmen (and only freshmen) to get them acquainted with faculty, staff, offices, classrooms, buildings, schedules, passing periods, lockers, etc. Continue reading
