I finished teaching my ten day unit this week! I had a lot of fun teaching this unit on irony. I used the story, "The Cask of Amontillado" by Edgar Allan Poe. When I started planning for my plan I thought I was going to need a lot of activities to cover the time, but I was surprised to see that I cannot do more than 2 activities per class period. I did three a couple times, and I felt really rushed to get through everything. I am glad I did my unit early because now I have time to relfect on it, and use what I have learned to create plans for January. Luckily, I will teaching Jane Eyre and Romeo and Juliet. I am using a lot of the ideas from my Jane Eyre wiki. I will change them a little to accommodate my students, but I think they will work well.
I also really like my cooperating teacher. I had one day when my lesson was not so strong, and I wanted to die! She let me go through the entire period trying to imporovise. Afterward, she sat with me (laughing), but gave me good feedback on how I could improve on the problems I had that day. It was frustrating, but I am glad I went through it.
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