Friday was my first day teaching the class by myself. I was really expecting to get quite nervous but I didn't and everything went fairly well! From here on out 4th and 6th periods are mine and I will be adding 3rd and 1st a little later. 4th period went well in its own ways. I didn't have any management issues and the students seemed excited about the change. I started the class with a think-pair-share activity. They are not used to this sort of thing so I gave them a lot of time, but I think I gave the too much because I discovered that they weren't going very deep with the questions I presented to them. If I continue doing this they will get better. So 6th period I didn't give them as much time on this portion of the class. 4th period I ran all of the way to the bell and they didn't have much of a chance to do the worksheet or book questions, whereas 6th period had about 10 minuets to work on them, but because it was 6th period on a Friday they weren't too interested in doing their work!
6th period was a little more challenging because I did have some students talking and I had to stop the class and explain that I do not have a big, loud voice and that I can't talk over them. I also said that I really don't want to lecture at them, I would rather it be more like a conversation but that we can't do that if they won't be quiet when I need them to be and participate when I ask for it.... They were good after that though. Also, my university supervisor was there for 6th period. He basically had good comments about my lesson plan and my implementation of the lesson. We talked a lot about how to creatively get them more engaged in the lesson and how to deal with some of the bad habits they have formed over the first weeks of school such as treating the last half of the class as social time. He will come again in about 2 weeks so we'll see how it goes then!
In a effort to engage the students in what is otherwise sort of dry material, I created flip-books. I learned how to make these last year in my internship at the middle school. They were a lot of work to make but I think it will be worth it. I will have them take all of their notes in the flip books rather than on regular paper. Here are a few pictures of the 70 flip-books I made over the weekend!
In other news, Jeremy's visit to Tucson was fantastic. We had a great weekend. I picked him up on Thursday (Aug. 28th) at about 10:30 pm, and still had to go to school on Friday. After I got home Jeremy and I went to one of our favorite Mexican restaurants Guadalajara and then we went and saw the movie Traitor. It was very good. It was about this Muslem who was sort of working for the US but not and was a devout Muslum but not a fanatic. It was interesting. During the day on Saturday we went and saw Pineapple Express, the new movie about these stoners that get wrapped up in a murder. It was really funny to us even though we don't smoke, at all, ever. Jeremy and I really enjoy going to movies together. We have been doing that together ever since we started dating in highschool 6 years ago... On Saturday night we went to a birthday party at a one of the private boxes at the Tucson Electric Baseball Park. That was fun. We got Garry a very strange gift from the Hallmark store because it was so funny. It was a pug in a banana. Pictured below....
It was fun. We saved Sunday night for going to another one of our favorite restaurants, Zemam's. It's Ethiopian and so good! We came back to my place after that and then went to the Melting Pot for a romantic dessert. It was good, but our server got us to order too much.... Next time we will know. And we didn't have reservations so we had to wait for about an hour to get seated and in the mean time it started down-pouring and poor Jeremy took the keys and ran out to the parking lot but forgot where the car was and he got really soaked! :(
Before we knew it, it was Monday morning and I was taking Jeremy back to the airport... :( We did however decide that we could not wait all of the way until Thanksgiving to see each other again so we bought Jeremy tickets for a weekend in October! Yay! :)
6th period was a little more challenging because I did have some students talking and I had to stop the class and explain that I do not have a big, loud voice and that I can't talk over them. I also said that I really don't want to lecture at them, I would rather it be more like a conversation but that we can't do that if they won't be quiet when I need them to be and participate when I ask for it.... They were good after that though. Also, my university supervisor was there for 6th period. He basically had good comments about my lesson plan and my implementation of the lesson. We talked a lot about how to creatively get them more engaged in the lesson and how to deal with some of the bad habits they have formed over the first weeks of school such as treating the last half of the class as social time. He will come again in about 2 weeks so we'll see how it goes then!
In a effort to engage the students in what is otherwise sort of dry material, I created flip-books. I learned how to make these last year in my internship at the middle school. They were a lot of work to make but I think it will be worth it. I will have them take all of their notes in the flip books rather than on regular paper. Here are a few pictures of the 70 flip-books I made over the weekend!
In other news, Jeremy's visit to Tucson was fantastic. We had a great weekend. I picked him up on Thursday (Aug. 28th) at about 10:30 pm, and still had to go to school on Friday. After I got home Jeremy and I went to one of our favorite Mexican restaurants Guadalajara and then we went and saw the movie Traitor. It was very good. It was about this Muslem who was sort of working for the US but not and was a devout Muslum but not a fanatic. It was interesting. During the day on Saturday we went and saw Pineapple Express, the new movie about these stoners that get wrapped up in a murder. It was really funny to us even though we don't smoke, at all, ever. Jeremy and I really enjoy going to movies together. We have been doing that together ever since we started dating in highschool 6 years ago... On Saturday night we went to a birthday party at a one of the private boxes at the Tucson Electric Baseball Park. That was fun. We got Garry a very strange gift from the Hallmark store because it was so funny. It was a pug in a banana. Pictured below....
It was fun. We saved Sunday night for going to another one of our favorite restaurants, Zemam's. It's Ethiopian and so good! We came back to my place after that and then went to the Melting Pot for a romantic dessert. It was good, but our server got us to order too much.... Next time we will know. And we didn't have reservations so we had to wait for about an hour to get seated and in the mean time it started down-pouring and poor Jeremy took the keys and ran out to the parking lot but forgot where the car was and he got really soaked! :(
Before we knew it, it was Monday morning and I was taking Jeremy back to the airport... :( We did however decide that we could not wait all of the way until Thanksgiving to see each other again so we bought Jeremy tickets for a weekend in October! Yay! :)
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