It's almost dinner time!
So, as we approach our dinner date, I thought I would stop by the blog and post a bit. I just started my teaching. Today. It went pretty well, but for some reason I was so nervous and I still am nervous. I guess that with the AP seniors, most of them are smart, and they know it, so activities go a lot quicker than you plan and sometimes they take the material a completely different direction.
I am actually doing an entire poetry unit with them which is challenging on numerous levels. Today we talked about how to read poems and what constitutes poetry. I have planned a lot of group work and Mrs. Garrison gave me some AP practice multiple choice to use. So far so good I guess. I opened up my first class today with a get-to-know you activity. I used "Connection" (for anyone that remembers it from your Orientation days, hip hop OLs rock). The students responded really well to it and it gave me a bit of a chance to get more on their level and continue to work on names. Learning names, now that's another post for another time, let me tell you...
As Megan as mentioned, all this work in teaching our five lessons and working on the unit plans is making me antsy for next semester and getting me less and less excited about silly writing studies homework. And to leave you with something Jen Romano said this evening in regards to student teaching: "You have to learn to laugh, if not, you'll cry".