I have my observed teaching coming up in my practicum and am preparing for that this week, so I'm thinking a lot about Gallagher's reflections regarding a teacher's focus on what we want our students to take from our teaching a specific novel. In the class I'm working with, we are starting Shakespeare's, "Julius Ceaser," so my mentor teacher asked me to do a quiz with the class that day. They will be prepared to take it from a movie they will watch the day before in class. So, I'm going to give them the quiz, then grade it with them in the class. I needed more activity to last through the class time, so I suggested to her that I do another activity, also, something that draws them into a discussion with me and also gives them group sharing. I'm finding things on line to share with them (a text) that will tell them about this time period, also, providing them with historical information about the era. I want them to see the similarities and differences between this time period and ours, but also am going to set up the discussion so they share their answers to three "Anchor" questions with each other that they answered about the text. As Gallagher says in the chapter eight, by asking these questions to set up the novel, it prompts them to look at the big ideas found in the work as they read.
My Anchor questions will be:
What I already knew?
What surprised me?
What questions do I have?
Hopefully this will prompt them to go into "Julius Ceaser" with an interest of meaningful reflection. What do you guys think?
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It sounds like you have a pretty good idea of what you want to get accomplished. Good luck!
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