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Class Plans: 04/03/2007
Apr. 2nd, 2007 11:51 pmI haven't been chronicling my first year as a teacher in a high school very well. This is due, in large part, to the fact that I'm too busy figuring things out to have time to chronicle them. I have been developing all my own curriculums (that's 5 regular classes + 2 Monday classes for those keeping track) and dealing with the social issues that arise at the school.
Still, I thought some of you might find it interesting to get a glimpse into where I am now, class plan and assignment-wise. So, without further ado, here's a summary of what my kids will be doing tomorrow (hopefully):
9th graders/Rhetoric:
We'll be continuing to work out of their grammar book, which means that I'll give them a lecture on run-on sentences and sentence fragments and how they're BAD. Then we'll practice ways to avoid them, how to sound them out, and how to correct butchered English.
10th graders/World Literature:
We discussed magical realism last week, but it's still too early to start their next reading assignment. Therefore, this week I'm letting them engage in a little creative work. They're going to have a small refresher on what "magical realism" means and then get to write their own short story in the magical realism genre.
11th graders/American Literature:
We've been discussing war-time literature as our next book is The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien. However, it's also not time for them to start reading their book yet. Tomorrow, I plan to assign each child a number: 1 or 2. All the 1's are going to be drafted into the military and sent to Iraq (trying to make it contemporary). All the 2's will NOT be drafted and will get to stay at home. Their activity for the day is then to write an essay on how they feel about being drafted or not being drafted, about their friends being drafted or not being drafted, etc.
12th graders/Popular Media:
I'm desperately trying to teach these guys how to write proper essays and we've been working on the analysis of poetry for the past couple of weeks. They were instructed to write a poetry analaysis over the weekend and I want to go over that, but I need something to keep them busy until I can grade their papers first. Therefore, I've made up a packet of a couple of poems and a couple of analyses of those poems written by other people. My students will have to read these analyses, then answer a series of questions appraising the essays' strengths and weaknesses.
Film Studies:
We're watching Casablanca.
And now we are sleepy. Goodnight.
Still, I thought some of you might find it interesting to get a glimpse into where I am now, class plan and assignment-wise. So, without further ado, here's a summary of what my kids will be doing tomorrow (hopefully):
9th graders/Rhetoric:
We'll be continuing to work out of their grammar book, which means that I'll give them a lecture on run-on sentences and sentence fragments and how they're BAD. Then we'll practice ways to avoid them, how to sound them out, and how to correct butchered English.
10th graders/World Literature:
We discussed magical realism last week, but it's still too early to start their next reading assignment. Therefore, this week I'm letting them engage in a little creative work. They're going to have a small refresher on what "magical realism" means and then get to write their own short story in the magical realism genre.
11th graders/American Literature:
We've been discussing war-time literature as our next book is The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien. However, it's also not time for them to start reading their book yet. Tomorrow, I plan to assign each child a number: 1 or 2. All the 1's are going to be drafted into the military and sent to Iraq (trying to make it contemporary). All the 2's will NOT be drafted and will get to stay at home. Their activity for the day is then to write an essay on how they feel about being drafted or not being drafted, about their friends being drafted or not being drafted, etc.
12th graders/Popular Media:
I'm desperately trying to teach these guys how to write proper essays and we've been working on the analysis of poetry for the past couple of weeks. They were instructed to write a poetry analaysis over the weekend and I want to go over that, but I need something to keep them busy until I can grade their papers first. Therefore, I've made up a packet of a couple of poems and a couple of analyses of those poems written by other people. My students will have to read these analyses, then answer a series of questions appraising the essays' strengths and weaknesses.
Film Studies:
We're watching Casablanca.
And now we are sleepy. Goodnight.