Cool thing...
In the English class I teach every other Wednesday I have a kid that just doesn't care or take things seriously. Smart guy too, athlete, the works, he could have the world by the tail.
Anyway, so on that night I took in a lesson plan that was one half essay writing, and the second was literature. I did a brief lesson on the Aztec god of war, Huitzilopochtli. I then discussed the Chicano Civil Right movement and the violence it saw, and then tied it in with allusions found in the works of Jimmy Santiago Baca (look him up, interesting life story).
Unexpectedly, it clicked with the students, especially this one boy. At the end of night he actually asked to borrow my copy of Baca's "Martin & Meditations of the South Valley". I decided I am just going to buy him one.
In the English class I teach every other Wednesday I have a kid that just doesn't care or take things seriously. Smart guy too, athlete, the works, he could have the world by the tail.
Anyway, so on that night I took in a lesson plan that was one half essay writing, and the second was literature. I did a brief lesson on the Aztec god of war, Huitzilopochtli. I then discussed the Chicano Civil Right movement and the violence it saw, and then tied it in with allusions found in the works of Jimmy Santiago Baca (look him up, interesting life story).
Unexpectedly, it clicked with the students, especially this one boy. At the end of night he actually asked to borrow my copy of Baca's "Martin & Meditations of the South Valley". I decided I am just going to buy him one.
FEB 13, 2009 05:09 PM
FEB 13, 2009 05:11 PM
well done =P
FEB 14, 2009 03:38 AM
FEB 16, 2009 01:47 AM
FEB 16, 2009 09:48 AM
i'm glad you click with your students, i have always thought that teaching must be hard, is just so easy to not be like that, and so hard probably, to really get everyones atenttion.
i think that even if we like to think that everyone of us is a unique snowflake or something, we are not, and most of the time we fit a stereotyope and that's just what we are . and girls are girls and boys are boys 
