Summer II
I spent a little over an hour this morning doing pretty much all of the printing that I'll need to do this semester, unless something pops up along the way. All my assignments, quizzes, and tests are printed, including the final exam. All my in-class worksheets are finished and printed, which means I only need to skim stories when they're due and can now offload the majority of the work on the students.
Nobody wants to sit through a three-hour lecture on a summer night and I don't want to talk that long without a series of well-timed breaks. So I came up with a very simple system this semester:
1. Oral quiz (5-10 minutes)
2. Attendance
3. Student oral presentation (one for each story due, 10 minutes)
4. First story synopsis/summary (2-3 minutes)
5. More detailed synopsis, section by section, with literary terms (10-15 minutes)
6. Launch group work (5 minutes per question, with 5 minutes of sharing with the class per question)
7. Break (10 minutes)
8. Repeat 3-6 for the second story
After we finish working with short stories, poetry will occur in blocks, usually with a test covering half the class period.
Notice that the only time I really need to lecture is on step #5 when I have to point out literary terms and define them. Students will provide the story synopsis and will provide examples of each term.
Class runs from 6pm-9:10pm and I hold office hours from 5:30pm-6pm
Nobody wants to sit through a three-hour lecture on a summer night and I don't want to talk that long without a series of well-timed breaks. So I came up with a very simple system this semester:
1. Oral quiz (5-10 minutes)
2. Attendance
3. Student oral presentation (one for each story due, 10 minutes)
4. First story synopsis/summary (2-3 minutes)
5. More detailed synopsis, section by section, with literary terms (10-15 minutes)
6. Launch group work (5 minutes per question, with 5 minutes of sharing with the class per question)
7. Break (10 minutes)
8. Repeat 3-6 for the second story
After we finish working with short stories, poetry will occur in blocks, usually with a test covering half the class period.
Notice that the only time I really need to lecture is on step #5 when I have to point out literary terms and define them. Students will provide the story synopsis and will provide examples of each term.
Class runs from 6pm-9:10pm and I hold office hours from 5:30pm-6pm