This week's teaching was solid :-)
Tuesday's lesson plan included finishing the movie and discussing some of the main aspects. The students also chose topics related to the movie to write their persuasive essay. The majority of the students will write something that will try to persuade the reader to watch the movie or not watch the movie (much like a real film review!). After the topics were chosen we started to fill in an introduction outline, but we didn't finish.
In Thursday's class we finished up the entire outline for the essay and I feel pretty good about it. We did some peer reviewing of the outline and I was able to give special attention to some of the students. I was very happy to have the opportunity to help these students, because I don't feel like I am able to give enough of this special attetion due to time constraints. I think we are all on the same track now and I hope I can include more time later to give these students an extra hand.
Well....on Tuesday I look forward to getting the final drafts of the Persuasive Essays and seeing how the students are doing. It's amazing how much my students have improved! I guess they learn regardless of who their teacher is :-) It really has been a lot of fun seeing the improvement of my students as compared to day 1 - it really motivates me and helps me to want to continue to work hard.
We will see what next week brings.
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Alan -- Your blog makes me glad you got that assistantship and I didn't. You're young and strong and can do the 8 am thing. A las ocho en punto!
It sounds like you are doing very well and makes me think of my first time teaching Comp101 -- so much harder than the 2nd or 5th time!!
Buen trabajo, amigo!
Yes, Alan. You're doing really great!
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