First lesson Evaluated!!!

This past week was my first time teaching in front of my supervising teacher. I was really nervous because I had not met him before, plus i was getting used to the class being the way it is. I had prepared a lesson for the senior class. They are getting ready for the IB program testing. This test will help the seniors graduate better prepared to face any educational obstacul around the world. The lesson was focused on how to interpret poetry and to identify what literary resources were used to get the main idea across to the reader. The lesson started off with a warm up so the students were be ready to face this challenge. The warm up was to divide every word in a paragraph by syllables. By doing this, the students would identify where the stress of the accentuation in a word would be. The students got a good idea on how to pronounce words in order to identify the acentuation.

The next step was to go around the room reading a poem. The students read the poem. I actually was really surprise how they read that day. Tha pronounciation was on point and their time was great. When we read the poem, I asked the class to coe up with a few conclusons of the meaning of the poem. The students responded to the poem greatly. They understood that poems are much more than art. They show whats going on in society. They show how the author is responding to life in general. With this poem, they will have more than enough topics to write about in the essay part of their test.