English 11-This week went fairly well. The students did have issues sticking to working on the study pack for the unit test. I am thinking that it might be better to play some sort of interactive game. They did, however do quite well on the test. We will be moving on to Puritans next week. I will miss interesting literature for awhile. It won't be until we get in to Thoreau that the interest returns
Atleast it isn't so hard to teach and read. I mean, I love all the documents and history, but I miss the challenge of a good story.
First period did not do well in the lab on Friday. They didn't seem to take the discussion seriously. Had to help them along a little more than I would have liked.I was prepared for sixth period. They got it.
Using paperrater was great. I learned that the students really need to work on their vocab. Will need to focus on that.
Socrative initiation this week. I want to start exit tickets...or daily vocab to the slate where they can do it on the fly. Hope that works.
The text to speech program on Novell is worthless unless it can work on all computers in the school. Try something else.
Creative Writing-Wow! I am in love with these classes this year. Everyone seems to want to write..which is refreshing. I am so excited for the field trip on Monday. We worked through the personal narrative and memoir this week.
We had s great week. They really got the paperrater and were most eager to fix their problems. The worked diligently on the narratives and will turn them in on Sunday.
I think that I am finally getting them to understand the excitement of a community of writers. It feels great.
The convention is Monday. I have learned that I need to start the field trip process BEFORE school starts. It takes forever to run it by everyone. I can also hold onto the $$ until the convention. No panic next year.
