Chapter 6

O yea- I forgot to write about the chapters!! Chapter 6 is everything that I just read for my ENG 520 class. I really enjoy grammar and usage and chose to be an English teacher for that reason, but I know that teaching it in mini-lessons is the only way to teach it. Reading about grammar is boring, so the chapter was not very intriguing, but teaching it doesn’t have to be the same way. In a sense, grammar is like poetry. Students are often afraid of it because they don’t understand it and their teachers explain it without enthusiasm. If we can teach it, like we enjoy it, students will have more of a positive outlook on it and won’t groan and moan every time we introduce a lesson. Although knowing what verbs and adjectives are, it is more important knowing how to use them in a sentence. This is where are interesting mini-lessons come into play! Chapter 6 gives some good examples of how to incorporate these into the classroom and I will hopefully be able to do that.