I want to agree with the points that say that it is quite different and difficult to get in front of your peers. 9th graders don’t intimidate me, but my peers do. Many of you have so many more years of teaching\u00a0 – on all kinds of levels, too – than I do. I know 9th graders can’t do my job better than I can, but I know that many of you could.<\/p>\n
On the whole, I think that my presentation went pretty well given the circumstances. The only thing I wish that I had done differently would be to connect the opening writing activity a little better at the end. I ran out of time before getting to really talk about the ending. I kept forgetting to incorporate the teaching explanations in there. I wasn’t worried about the presentation going into it, but I hadn’t anticipated how difficult it would be to teach and explain why I was doing what I was doing at the same time. I also over-planned, so there were a lot of things that I wanted to talk about that I didn’t get to do.<\/p>\n
I was really glad for the variety of examples from funny to serious, and the participation that was given. There was one more activity I had hoped to get to or at least be able to discuss, which tied in with the last activity. We would have a conversation about the fact that this story seems to be a confession, but we don’t know to whom. I wanted to talk about how the class would discuss that, and then how different opinions would come out of that. After we’d discussed the irony and the narration, I would have students write from another character’s point of view – perhaps from Fortunato’s, but even other characters who are mentioned but never actually show up in the story (Lady Fortunato, Luchesi, the servants, etc.). Alternately they could write from the point of view of the person who is hearing Montresor’s confession – is it a person, a diary, a child, a spouse, a random person that he is telling? And WHY is he telling it? Is he guilty, dying, proud, etc.? There is so much to discuss with this story that it’s impossible to cram it all (with explanations) into 20 minutes. But overall, aside from the aforementioned nerves and the speed-talking I seem to make a habit of when giving presentations, I felt like it went pretty okay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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