Today was a test for the 11th graders an in-class essay which for the most part it was a quiet day, while everyone was taking the test. The 8th period 11th grade class is a very needy class ' in the words of the teacher' they have an in- class essay that was discussed and told to them a the whole week I was there, and all they are doing is complaining that they just want to do pre-writing. On the HSPA they don't give you 40 mintues to prewrite then 40 for the test. You have only 40 minutes all together, and these students wanted to be babies in a way. It's not nice to say, but thats the truth and the purpose is to teach them not to be dependent for help because even when they get into college you aren't going to have time to prewrite you need to learn to think on your feet. The 9th graders got an inclass essay which is a prereading writing activity for the book 'Anthem" that they will begin reading on Monday. The question being " what if you were told that you were not allowed to be what every you wanted to be when you grow up, that a council looked at you and got to choose the job you were going to do for the rest of your life, and that job was a chimney sweeper. what would your reaaction be, how would you feel. I think that was a really great way to begin the book, because it makes the students empathtic to the characters in the story before even reading it, and it gives you a lot of motive to read the book to actual figure out what is going on. I liked that lesson idea a lot.
Today was actually a pretty relaxing and calm day, nothing really to exciting today or Monday another inclass essay for the Seniors and an objective test for the 11th graders.
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