Today was a very unorganized day. I arrive at 8am to be early and to see which teacher they have placed me with. To my suprise the head of the department is not in. I wait for a little while and she still had not come to her office. So the secretary makes me a list of 5 different teachers to see. I figured day 1 FINE! I haven't been to high school in 5 years this ought to be amusing. I thought one teacher I was supposed to be placed with not more then that. The evaluation will be a mess. Tomorrow I plan on fixing it and trying to stay put with one teacher. Well here goes my day....
Period 1 was with Ms. Macfadden a teacher I had in my Jr. Year for creative writing her class was 11th grade English. The lesson was on Romantic period of the 1800s and the first story they were doing was 'Rip Van Winkle.' The first thing she did was hand out a 6 page study guide with missing infromation for the students to fill in for homework.. Homework was written on the blackboard before students walked in. The first page was A-K kind of like an ABC Chart but not really looking to start with the first letter of the alphabet just ten straight facts about the 1800 romantic period. The teacher had a presentation on the computer which consiste of mostly lovely pictures of the time of the rennisance, and child labor and the gothic period. She had notes in front of her which she looked back to repeatedly... which is not a bad thing because no one is perfect. She used alot of english vocabulary like artitypal characters and asked the students to renforce their knowlegde of what the terms mean. When they read the story she played the audio cd which for me is good, but WHO DONT LIKE A GOOD OLD FASHION GROUP READING. Yes, a lot of students don't like that but it keeps them paying more attention then they would just listening. The classroom was decorated with a lot of work made by the students.
Period 2 : Again very crazy schedual. They sent me to a classroom that was already in progress because its a double period honor 10 course with my 12th grade english teacher Mrs. DeLuca. I felt so bad walking right into her lesson, but thats where they told me where to go. She still uses overhead projector, feels like a dinasour compared to the spoiled usage of computers and smartboard we had. This was a more serious classroom filled with alot of political images and no student made decorations. The lesson was on the book ' The Last of the Mohecans" by Cooper. She made an outline and discussed characters.
Period3: Mrs. Scarpelli 12th grade English was working on the 'Canterberry Tales' whats funny is they each have a character to play and have to dress up and research them which is really cute. =] This classroom had a double teacher in it. This class is very outspoken. This students are lucky they get to read the modern version, I was forced to read it in Old English.
Period4: Mrs. Finnerty is Mrs. Scarpelli's mother also an English teacher. At first seems very strict, because students were unprepared without text books. Then as she went over the vocabulary list for THE BET...
Period 5 Mrs. Weeks and my homeroom teacher Mrs. Farely. Board again has homework on it. 10th grade. Alot of kids were falling alseep. They have a test tomorrow on irregular verbs. To be honest I havent touched any concept of grammar since high school. and its was my last class of the day. It felt werid going back, everyone couldn't believe that I was about to graduate college in May. They all said they fell so old. Interesting day one.. Hopefully I can have a better rest of the next 2 weeks of my life.
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