Since my Europe lesson day went a little longer than I wanted on Friday, we had a few things to finish up today including half of the notes and the quiz. I thought that this might end up taking either the entire day or half of the day, depending on which one Mike wanted. He said I should try and get through all of this and not try to push forward into the Protestant Reformation since rushing that would probably ruin the set.
So while figuring out exactly how that would go down, Mike said we had a fire drill and Constitution Day today so we had to go outside and then go to the flagpole to sing the Preamble.
In addition, we had to be flexible today since it was Monday and do check in with the kids. Since we had to watch the videos of the Preamble and hen do check in, I tried to make the stories and the talk in the morning go a little longer so we could push all the way to nine when the fire drill was about to happen, and this seemed to work out pretty well.
After we returned we only had about 20-25 more minutes of class time for learning. Logan and Jeromy had been talking constantly throughout the day, so I finally separated them about 3 minutes into my lecture. I didn't make it into an argument or discussion, just told Logan to move since he seemed to be the one initiated the talking most of the time even though both of of them were at fault. This seemed to fix the problem. I hope that changing the seating chart will help this problem solve itself.
The notes went rather well as we only had about ten things to go over in their notes. I have succumbed to the fact that they will only write down things that are very specific. Phrases such as this will on on the EOC or you need to have this in your notes are being more and more common place in my lectures, and I hope I can find a way to do this with more variety. Putting exactly the words that they need on the screen helps, and I like working with Prezi because that can be done with several subtopics.
Only about half the students turned in their maps, which was very disappointing. I don't want to fail the students that I know will not be doing their homework, but I want to have rigor as well without having to have some casualties in order to make an example.
Academic vocabulary was Mike's main criticism of my lesson today, I used the term theater when referring to war and that didn't translate. Another thing I'm noticing is that Dylan wants to answer every single question, and I'm getting a little bit better about checking if the students are understanding throughout the lecture, which actually takes up time as well which is good for the slow note takers.
- I need to address everyone in the classroom everyday at least twice. There are only 11 of them and sometimes less there is no excuse to not make this happen.
Tomorrow they will quiz over this material and I will probably give them about 5-10 mins to go over their notes after we review some things together as well.
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