I am very happy to have done this teaching presentation.\u00a0 I plan to teach literature, so this project helped me visualize what a literature classroom would be.\u00a0 I used to think teaching literature can\u2019t be that difficult.\u00a0 I would think that as long as you knew the text pretty well, you could teach it.\u00a0 Of course our lesson on novice and expert readers did remind me that teaching a subject is different than knowing it.\u00a0 But in practice, it was much more difficult than I thought.\u00a0 I learned that I need to be better prepared and have back up plans and activities for when lessons don’t go as I had planned.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
In teaching Hills like White Elephants <\/em>I realized that I should have reviewed the story before the group presentations.\u00a0 Initially I had planned to have the groups give their presentations, and then move on to a class discussion about the story.\u00a0 But after my lesson I realized that many students needed clarification about the story itself.\u00a0 It would have been good to review the story before the presentations.\u00a0 Perhaps have students volunteer to act out the characters.\u00a0 The story was in dialogue format, so we could have had one student be the girl, another would be the man, and a third the narrator.\u00a0 After the story was read, I would ask if students had any questions about the text itself.\u00a0 And once that had been settled, students could begin their group work and presentations.<\/p>\n With the quiz, I hope I didn\u2019t make it seem as if I was a tough teacher.\u00a0 The intention was to warm up students to the day\u2019s activities.\u00a0 Taking quizzes in a literature classroom was not my favorite.\u00a0 In fact I have had my share of poor quizzes in English.\u00a0 However, I found those short quizzes to be very effective and motivating when combined with ways to make up for poor quizzes.\u00a0 Students do not feel as stressed when they know their pop quiz will not determine their final grade, but it motivates them to read the reading assignment.\u00a0 I am interested to know other opinions on that matter.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n In general, this session is an introduction to the story, and its purpose is to help students learn the story.\u00a0 The follow-up sessions would focus more closely on point of view and the relation of setting to the plot.\u00a0<\/p>\n Thanks everyone for participating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I am very happy to have done this teaching presentation.\u00a0 I plan to teach literature, so this project helped me visualize what a literature classroom would be.\u00a0 I used to think teaching literature can\u2019t be that difficult.\u00a0 I would think that as long as you knew the text pretty well, you could teach it.\u00a0 Of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/spring2008\/610\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/spring2008\/610\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/spring2008\/610\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/spring2008\/610\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/spring2008\/610\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/spring2008\/610\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/spring2008\/610\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/spring2008\/610\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/spring2008\/610\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}