Week Ten of Student Teaching

(forgive any rambling my niece was diagnosed with leukemia, I've had little sleep this weekend)
This was a fabulous week. I really enjoyed myself. The first two days we had a small lesson to brush them up on commas for CRT's, which are rapidly approaching. It was a simple lesson but covered seven or eight good comma rules. It was nice to put together a power point for it, it's been a while since I have used it and it makes things nice, captures some attention. Get a little differentiation in there.

The lesson consisted of showing a rule with some examples then having them write their own sentence which employs that rule. After that we spent a while working on a puzzle. I separated them into groups and gave them some slips of paper that comprised a paragraph when put in order and joined with commas, coordinating conjunctions, and periods. It really seemed to challenge them. They griped a bunch but it was good natured and I think its good for them to stretch. And I ended it with a multiple choice quiz, which we reviewed as a class after they took it.

This is the kind of one day lesson plan I will use in the future. I think it was a good refresher but went deep enough for those who didn't understand the rules to learn them well enough to apply them. I think its something that I could share with other teachers, but in reality I borrowed and combined them from other teachers. Thank you other teachers!