After reading Romano's book, I learned a few set skills on how to grade papers as a teacher of english as well as ways to approach lesson plans. I was still briefly confused because, as a teacher, this lesson plan will be affecting many people's grades.It was hard for me to come up with something off the bat until I realized I would be doing this for the rest of my life. Then I thought, I should do it based on something fun and exciting. My theory is that with each lesson plan you build, depending on subject matter, the students should have some choice or say in it as well.
Thinking about it in that perspective, I also brushed upon what I found fun about reading the material. With association of my prior knowledge, the lesson plan began to come with ease. I found some of Romano's words encouraging to help get through the stressful parts and I began to be able to find a lot of fun in making plans. As a future teacher myself, this makes me beyond ecstatic to start. I feel as if this assignment had prepared me for reality of what it is kind of like to be in the class.
While reading text for my courses, I continuously find myself thinking about how this could be made into a lesson. I want to make an impact on the students, and how could I or would I do that with the text at hand. I found that in almost anything you read you can pull out a theme, or even something to learn. Reading opens up the mind and allows us to learn through someone else's experiences. This isn't something you can achieve on a normal basis, and this assignment helped me realize how important it is to pull these ideas out of text. I look forward to the next.
Here is a link on interpreting text and the authors purpose of writing!
I'm glad you had fun with the Frankenstein assignment. Once I started teaching, I found that creating unit plans based on what I wanted students to learn, writing goals, and engaging students was one thing I loved about teaching.
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