meganmelinda (meganmelinda) wrote in phyrebards, @ 2007-10-22 02:49:00 |
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Reading in Class
I am conferencing tomorrow in order for her to review my lesson plan ideas. I am very excited about my topic and I cannot wait to finally get in front of the classroom with this great group. The unit is centered around the young adult novel The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd. I asked Ms. Rogers point blank if the students would be completing their reading as it was assigned. She gave me a funny look and said that she could not count on them to read outside of class and that with the novels the class read it together aloud in school. I am okay with this method if it is what gets the students reading and interested in the work; however, it’s a little discouraging that most of my class instruction time will be spent re reading the novel.
I do not remember reading a loud in class a lot, does anyone else recall doing this? Did students not simply fall asleep and not follow along? Do you suspect that some students were so nervous to read aloud in front of their peers that they missed the plot line of the novel? Are there any other options? I know that I will be doing this the way that Ms. Rogers knows best for this particular novel, but what about next semester with student teaching? I would like to be able to do this novel again (it’s great!).