Reflection

When I enrolled in English 325, I was fairly certain I knew what the class was about. I believed that I would be writing papers using specific medical terminology. I quickly found that I was incorrect in my assumptions. It became apparent that the purpose of this particular course was to ensure that I would be able to effectively communicate in a variety of contexts while being able to affectively integrating knowledge and ideas in an orderly and logical manner. At first glance, an official…

My writing experience prior to taking ENGL109x was not good. I have always had trouble with how to begin my essays. I honestly never really looked into strategies that can help me begin my essays, therefore I was stuck for some time until I could come up with something, then I begin to type. Not only did I have problems with starting my essay, but I also had problems with how it flowed, especially to the reader. Since English is my second language, grammar errors is something I have always had…

I chose the text “A Very Clever Possum” (Joseph, 1999) because it is one that students may be able to relate to, because possums are fairly common in New Zealand (dependent on location) and it provides opportunities to develop discussions before, during and after the text has been read, which will “enhance the students understanding of what they are reading” (Bidulph, 2002, p.1). I believe that an effective guided reading lesson can be produced from this story. I have chosen to introduce the…

Hello, Pennfoster. Seems that you need me to tell you a little about myself and my studying. Well first off, I’m pretty smart and I know that may seem big headed of me but, at least I think I am. One of the many reasons I complete the exams so fast I all of the information I need is in the study unit as you know there is a search button on the study unit so what I usually will do is open two tabs of the Pennfoster website and I use one to look at the questions and the other to search up the…

Video 2 I share a gym that is divided by a curtains with another class, this often makes it difficult for the students to hear the whistle, to combat the confusion and the noise from the other class I instilled a classroom management technique where I blow my whistle then raise my hand. Some of the students will hear my whistle then raisin their hand, the students who do not here the whistle will see other classmates raising their hands and know it is time to stop and show me the sign that they…

What I’ve learned about families whose children have special needs The most valuable information I’ve taken away from this course is to stop feeding into my fears and just asks the questions. Taking the risk to ask the families whose children have special needs will open the pathway to many opportunities: bridging the families relationship with the school, creating an open dialog between both parties, and knowing what resources the families or students may need. This semester I came to realize…

I felt it was a really instructional video even though it came out in 1989. It is a resource that resins to issues still in society and the classroom. I liked the part about sarcasm and how the guy advised against using it because you make a victim out of the person who you used sarcasm with even though the rest of the class may get enjoyment out of the teacher using sarcasm in his tone of voice. Anxiety makes students unable to answer simple questions. Quitting in less than 6 minutes was…

Another week has zoomed by! The kindergartners are settling in and are busy learning school procedures and practicing self-control. We are practicing recognizing letters, sounds, and numbers. We are working on letters/sounds for Bb, (butterfly) Cc, (caterpillar) Mm, (monarch) and Ss. (smile) We are learning to recognize our classmates ' names and recognizing color words! We have 1 growing caterpillar. Ten of our caterpillars have entered the third stage of metamorphosis! We were excited…

Out of all of the books I read this summer, Into The Wild was by far my favorite. To me, Chris McCandless’s story was both heartbreaking and motivating, and I admire his commitment to living on his own. I also enjoyed the format that Krakauer followed when writing the book. Above all, I believe Krakauer did justice to McCandless’s story, and proved that he was not an ill-prepared and incompetent teenager like some people believe. When Jon Krakauer wrote this book, he chose to study…

For the first question, I told the student the two fractions were equivalent. I asked him what the denominator would be for the second fraction and he said 8. He stared at the problem for a minute and then wrote “x2” next to the 1 and 4 of the first fraction. I asked him how he decided 8 was the denominator was 8 and he said “I multiplied the numerator and the denominator by 2 because 2 is the numerator in one of them.” Question 2: For the second question, I said “2/3 is equal to how many…