This was a pretty time consuming week, and it was full of all new experiences. Monday was basically the start of me pushing all of the facts and details about the Civil Rights Movement. The first thing we did was trace the background of the civil rights movement. The class did this in various small groups, which was very successful. Tuesday was another small group day, and again the output was successful, and I feel the students learned. Wednesday, and Thursday was again another group project, and by Thursday I could tell students needed some independent study, because they were exhausted from all of the group work. Friday students had the choice of working alone or with ONE partner on a “must know info” paper. Students were used to this kind of work, and actually enjoyed working independently. The reason my week was full of new experiences because I learned how to work the copy machine much more successfully than I remember, I learned how to check, and input grades, and on Thursday Mr. Eads was sick and I took over his classes. This was interesting because although many times earlier that week, and in the previous week he had left the classroom so I could feel how it is to be alone; now I knew he would not be returning at a random time to check up on me. This made me put my “big boy pants on” and step up my skills, which turned out to be successful the entire day.
