Restating My I-Search

I posted a while back on the I-search but we were told to post again and share what we've learned. I did my project on the Mark Twain novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. It was an attempt to gain confidence in teaching classic literature because I don't like classic literature too much. It was a challenge for me to find different materials and address them within my paper as I went along. Still, I managed.

I found a lot of cool ideas for teaching the story like putting on a mock trial and discussing what makes a successful lie. It was interesting trying to cram all the information into a small paper but I did. I would have preferred a presentation of the material over the paper because I don't think it really matters what the process was for looking for the articles so long as you had found some neat teaching methods. What matters as future teachers is collecting as much items that we can later use in our classroom from other teachers... we just shared ideas with Dr. Franklin and no one else.

It's a pity because I'm sure other students have found great ideas too and the possibilities of open sharing and stealing would have been a wondrous idea.