I taught my first lesson in the class this week and it was amazing. We started a unit on "Of Mice and Men" and I'm going to be able to develop what we do in class into my conceptual unit plan. I had never read this novel before, so it's going to be a new experience to analyze it. I'm really excited about it because when I was in High School I went to a Christian School that didn't allow us to read novels with rough language, such as this one, that portrayed a different lifestyle of a culture, so I'm broadening my horizons, also. The Metaphors in this novel will allow interpretation to be developed in the classroom, such as Gallagher talks about in Deeper Reading. Whereas, some people view this as a right or wrong choice of reading.
It was exciting to start the unit with a vocabulary exercise that implemented group collaberation with terms from the novel. When we went through the answers to the quiz I gave them about the first chapter, I lead them into a discussion about the language, metaphors, and their interpretations as we went over the answers. It went really smooth. I'm looking forward to working other exercises in that will lead me into a unit great unit plan on this novel for my own class as well as correlate it to things I've learned in my training, such as I did with this weeks reading.
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Did your students agree that the vocabulary lesson was interesting? I know that a lot of students dont enjoy vocab lessons because they can be boring, but teachers still incorporate them into the units. I know that my students in my field experience hate the vocab lessons and they are only about 6 words long. But it was great that you got the experience of teaching. Good luck!
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