...well let's see.

My name is Scarlett Moore. I am a Jun/more at U.S.A. I love British Literature and hope to be teaching it in a few years. I have always loved reading, it is my favorite past time.

Library

My students will be using the library to research topics and to get background information on the authors we will be studying. They will also need to understand the set up of the library and the Dewey Decimal Systen in order to make their searches shorter.

Projects

My students will do a number of projects both alone and in groups. For the group projects, sometimes I will allow them to choose their own groups, but at other times I will assign the proups. I feel that it is important for teenagers to learn to work with people that they may not know or like very well. Many times, kids refuse to work with some one because they run in different social crowds, yet they are more alike than they think. Some of the projects will include illuminated manuscripts, illustrations of stories, original poetry, and dramatic recitations. By dramatic recitations I mean that they WILL NOT stand in front of me and in a monotone voice repeat something they memorized five minutes ago. I will expect my students to know the correct pronunciation of the Old English and well as the proper places to pause, relax and stress.

Blogs

I think that blogs are a wonderful was of making information more accessible to the students. It is also much more entertaining for a student to create a blog with pictures as well as text to do a presentation, rather than just a power point slide show that they just click through and read.

Time Management

Many kids are such procrastinators (guilty), that they will skip a morning class to do homework for an afternoon class. In any educational institution this is considered one of the greatest travesties besides plagiarism. Instead of giving out a syllabus with a final due date for a project and a page or two explaining in minute detail how it is to be done, and just waiting for that day when students turn in the final project, I plan to put the project on a time line and remind the students occasionally that something will be due in X days. This way, the whole class stays together on the project and I am better able to explain things or answer questions. It will also make grading much less stressful for me. Instead of having note cards, source cards, rough draft, peer review, revised draft, final draft, and works cited page to grade all at once for thirty-some-odd students, I will be checking them frequently on the due dates to keep them from piling up at the end of the semester.

Education for $1000, Alex.....

=This is a useless method of teaching.
-What is "Burp-back" education?
=Correct!!
Let's face it, there is no point in forcing students to memorize things for a test that they will just forget the moment they walk out of class and possibly never use again the rest of their lives. Unless they get on Jeopardy or a similar game show students do not care to remember when some guy did that thing and then died however many years ago. Instead of straight memorization of people, places, dates and quotes, I will teach the students why this information is important; especially in the field I will be teaching, which is English/Literature. One person's interpretation of a poem may not be the same as another's, and if the poet is no longer alive then there is no way to know EXACTLY what he or she meant (unless he or she kept a journal and explained it to us). While it is important to know who wrote a piece of literature and when and where they wrote it, many teachers put too much emphasis on just that information. We can learn so much about authors and what they mean in their writings by studying the history of the time and place they were born and finding out as much about their personal lives as possible.