Read, Talk, & Blog Lesson Plans!

February 22, 2016

Day 237 as an Oklahoma Teacher

     This week my fabulous English IV students will be reading their books on Monday and Tuesday, having discussions on Wednesday, blogging on Thursday, and working on their senior projects on Friday. The discussions will be about what they have read and also about a video that I will show them. Like last week, I will give them questions about the video to use for the discussions. The video will be the Ted Talk about if schools are preparing students for the real-world. This independent reading, discussions, and blogging is leading up to a compare/contrast or argumentative essay due the week of March 7. They will write the rough draft that week, edit after spring break, and turn in a final copy at the end of March.

     In the AP classes, they will first finish rewriting Act I of the Taming of the Shrew. The third hour group is rewriting the play using Grey's Anatomy and the sixth hour group is rewriting using The Office. Both classes are rewriting the script, and sixth hour wants to tape their acting out of the play. For third hour, all six students worked on Act I using Google Docs. In sixth hour, each group will have a different assignment. On Tuesday or Wednesday, both classes will act out Act II, discuss, and then watch the movie. On Thursday, they will add onto their play the events that happened in Act II.

    All of the students have received the requirements for the senior project. On Fridays, they either work on the outline, advertisements, or the technology part of their projects.