Writing/Composition/Grammar 3

Reflection: Resumes are a big part of teenage and adult life. A teenager needs it to apply for jobs, colleges, and internships. It is extremely frustrating when you can't find the right things to put on the resume or when you keep getting passed over for jobs because of the quality of your resume. A cover letter is important as well as a resume when not knowing how to write it or what to put in it makes it difficult to submit the application because of this. As teachers, we should take time to dedicate to set up our students for future success and teach them the tools on how to write these two things.  

Writing/Composition/Grammar 2

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1I8WZRZgh_NMjCseKrsTly6Z3LwyG7YsIfxi3K0sav7U/edit?usp=sharing

Reflection: During my time reading 'Teaching Reading to Middle Schoolers' by Laura Robb, I learned three important things.

• The difference between 'reluctant' 'grade level' and proficient' readers. Reluctant readers are those who read at or below grade level and do not possess the knowledge of reading strategies. Grade level is a student can read at the level they are in now and can perform the minimum amount of reading strategies. Proficient students read above the grade level and have knowledge of many reading strategies.
• In middle school grades, it is best to stop after every chapter and go through to define, what is happening, context clues, vocabulary students didn't know and the key ideas in the chapter. 
• Popcorn and Round Robin reading are horrible for a student's self-esteem and reading skills. 

Writing/Composition/Grammar 1

Rough Draft

Reflection: I couldn't find an old example of a rough draft I had done, but I wanted to add this because it is important for a student to be able to write out everything they think of and everything they come across in regrades to the topic. It's especially important in high school because teachers grade based on everything, grammar, content, topic sentences, and thesis'. The more practice the better a student gets at writing a paper/essay.

Visual Literacy 3

Reflection: I picked The Crucible for Visual Literacy because I've seen it both in high school and in college. In my honest opinion in high school I didn't like it, I thought it was slow and extremely boring. Reading it and watching the play was a huge difference, in the paper play it was more intense and hit the climax, the live-action play missed important parts and mostly skipped the climax all the together. Now, watching it in College I realized that they changed the live action from the play because they tried to make it PG 13 for students and younger audience to watch it, but the crucible has a strong message in the play so I feel like to diminish the play for the age of the audience is wrong. it would do the audience better if the live-action was much more like the play. If this is in the curriculum at the school I teach I might have to go about it differently than my 11th grade English teacher did.

Visual Literacy 2

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1GQSfFuxUUvzrgV28BqYaLhKRDdr6rd_7LtPww39DOVg/edit?usp=sharing

Reflection: The link above is my visual literacy presentation, my first presentation in this class. It was extremely nerve-racking because it was in front of my peers. I learned a lot from this presentation such as posters are a great learning material for students because it is colorful and attracts the student's attention. Another helpful tip I learned always has two or three options of learning, for example reading aloud, reading silently, reading in pairs/groups. The third tip I learned from the book is that playing videos, plays and movies helped stimulate the student's brain and make learning fun for them. A play of a book that was read in class might help a student understand the concept more than reading it. This project was helpful to me because now I know different strategies to help each student individually.

Visual Literacy 1

Reflection: In my English 270 class we read and watched 'The Handmaids Tale' by Margaret Atwood. Reading and watching this book was a life-changing experience for me. It was so sad and it brought awareness to sex trafficking, rape, arranged marriages, and how women were treated a couple decades ago. While watching the movie I couldn't help but feel emotional during the opening scene when the main character Kate lost her daughter in a snowstorm trying to escape their fate of being caught and turned into handmaids, which ended up happening to Kate in the end. Kate had to go almost 5 years without knowing where or if her daughter was alive. The movie was a great representation of the book and it followed it to the T. Watching the movie gave me some clarity from the book and it filled in loopholes that I missed from the book. It also gave me a clear picture in my head of what the characters and setting looked like. Dr. Beth's method of reading then watching is a great method that I will try to follow when/if I become a teacher.

Literature/Reading 3

Reflection: This is the first comic/graphic novel that I have read and I don't think anything will top this. Calvin and Hobbes was truly an amazing comic. it was colorful, relateable, comical and enjoyable. After reading this my first thought was 'doesn't matter what grade I teach I want this book to be apart of my lesson'. I think people of any age would really enjoy this book. This comic turned into a graphic novel is from the eighties so people who read it back then pass it down to their kids and I think that's amazing. it's kind of a classic in my book. Teaching this is in a secondary English classroom would be so much fun, their could be so many projects and discussions that would fill the classroom.

Literature/Reading 2

Reflection: This is an example of what I don't want to teach in my classroom. Don't get me wrong William Faulkner is a brilliant author, but his stories are always so slow and frankly a little boring. Having a whole week of class that talked about Faulkner and reading his work felt like the longest time and the slowest week ever. I don't want students to fall out of love with reading because we spend too much time on one author or one book that they don't like the sort of like I did during this class. It's easy for kids to despise reading easily because of the boring slow books and I want my students to think differently.

Literature/Reading 1

Reflection: This book is the reason I pursued English and preferably Secondary English in college. When I read this book in the 11th grade it felt as if I wrote it. Holden was written as if he was every teenager, you can really relate to him and everything he goes through even if you haven't gone through the same thing.
In my personal opinion, I think all teenagers should read this book. it gives you an insight into how the privilege uses their privilege and how people who have privilege view themselves and other people. In an English classroom, I would do a traditional reading and essay on either a major theme or how the students felt about the book or their favorite parts or least favorite parts. something that just gets the students into reading this book because like I said it's an amazing book.

Speaking/Listening 3

https://summerprospero.wixsite.com/macmillersinfluence 

Reflection: I did this project in my English 344 class this quarter and I have to say it was one of my favorite projects to do. I did it on Mac Miller a famous Rap/Hip-hop artist of my generation. He recently died of an overdoes in 2018. I talked about how the music industry set him up to fail by pushing drugs into his line of sight and forcing him to do coke to meet deadlines. I had to stand up in front of the whole class which for me was extremely had because of my social anxiety, but when I was talking about something I loved and something I put so much effort into it felt like a piece of cake.
I want my students to feel comfortable in front of the classroom. You can't really prepare someone for the fear that comes with public speaking no matter what age you start them at but as a teacher, it is our job to make the other student respect the presenter's time and effort they put into the project. I won't make my students do too many projects but I feel like they should be comfortable enough to do at least two or three. I'll give them enough time like my professor did to pick something they want to talk about, form a thesis, form a project and time to research their topics.

Speaking/Listening 2

Reflection: This is the outline/draft for the second speech I did for my communications class. I added this to my portfolio because it is important to talk about the good people who do good things like Jane Fonda who is using her privilege to help the world one protest at a time. In English, we sometimes read biographies about 'important figures' in our world, but we never talk about the actual people who do really good. Instead of talking about JFK and his affairs and his political stances we should talk about Jane Fonda or Ted Danson who have been risking their lives to get the current president to change his mind on climate change.

Speaking/Listening 1

Reflection: Ted Talks have been a huge impact on my college experience. I've watched at least one in most of my classes and I use them for my on-campus job as an academic coach. They are inspiring and motivating that keep student hopes up. There are hundreds of different topics that different people talk about in these videos. There is one that I'd like to show to every class that I teach because it gave me insight into books, it might do the same for other students. 'How books can open your mind' by Lisa Bu. "Books have given me a magic portal to connect with people of the past and the present I know I shall never feel lonely or powerless again" (4:58).