Learning Letter
Over the span of eleven weeks, I somehow managed to put together a pretty okay three-week lesson plan on Edgar Allan Poe. This plan was by far the most challenging thing that I have done as a student so far. Going into the lesson plan, I figured it would give me some insight into what is expected of me as a teacher, and it has. The one thing that I wasn't expecting it to do was show me where my tendencies and weaknesses are as a teacher. I found out so much when it comes to what I did too much in my lessons, as well as what needs work in my plans. The book talks that we did in class are another thing that was an eye-opener for me. I didn't think that they would take as much of a thought process as they did when we were first told about them. Having to come up with a rationale for why I would teach a book rather than just being able to say I picked it because its a good book was the first time that I thought about literature as a teacher rather than as a student. The education t...