Daily Objective: Student will be able to identify textual evidence of foreshadowing in chapter three of TKAM. Today’s goal was to reintroduce the concept of literary foreshadowing using the character of Burris Ewell, or “that dirty kid” as several in my class dubbed him. Instead of instructing the students, I got an excellent lesson in why I should read through…
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Day 6: those malevolent binders
Daily Objective: Student will be able to define unfamiliar vocabulary words and summarize plot elements from chapter two of TKAM. Since we were off for Labor Day, I figured students would be slightly more refreshed and ready for a short week. I definitely was – on the 25 mile commute “Call Me Maybe” came on the radio, and for the…
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Day Five: Pep Rally
Daily Objective: Student will be able to utilize direct quotations to infer character viewpoints, using the character of Boo Radley in To Kill a Mockingbird. SWBAT define basic qualities of urban legends. In preparation for the first varsity home football game of the year, Friday was a pep rally schedule, which chopped about five minutes off of every class. Not a…
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Day Four: “ebullient”
Daily Objective: Student will be able to recognize and describe characteristics of the main characters in chapter 1 of TKAM and identify meanings of unfamiliar words in the chapter. Long post for what felt like a very long day… My Hubster is active duty military, and just finished up the week-long Master Resiliency Training course, which teaches soldiers and families…
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Day Three: the “N” Word
Daily Objective: Students will be able to describe and analyze characteristics of 1930s southern culture and make connections to the present day justice system. I lied to my kids again. It’s only Day Three, what am I turning into? I got my voice back a little bit. It’s still mighty scratchy, but I tried all of the home recipes gifted…
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Day Two: Library Day, or Students are Bibliophobes
Daily Objective: Students will be able to identify and utilize the technological resources offered by the school library. My library orientation day was a little bit of a bust. First bust: I still had no voice. None. Barely a whisper. To compensate, I wrote out a script of what I would have said, printed it out, pantomimed intensely to a…
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My First Day: a Lost Voice
My very first day of teaching ever was today. And on my very first day of real teaching, I lost my voice. I have six periods of sophomore English 10, and I could barely croak at them. I’m not sick, but I needed an excuse. I told my sophomores it was because I started teaching pre-K Sunday School and we did…
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