Lesson Plans and student work samples
These lessons were implemented during my practicum experience at Houghton High School and my student teaching at Calumet High School.
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I view Frankenstein as the perfect piece when teaching about unreliable narrators. The novel can be very intense, which at times overwhelms the elements of the unreliable narration. This is exactly what happens in chapter 5 when Victor brings his monster to life, making this the perfect chapter to teach this lesson in. Students had to analyze Victor’s emotions before, during, and after the creation of the monster through different lenses. These lenses were what he was thinking, feeling, doing, what weight he was under, and where he was going. Students then had to visually portray these lenses on an outline of a body, creating their own monsters in the end.
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I believe that learning about figures from the past is important, but I am not the type of educator who will ask students specific questions about past figures in an assessment. Instead, I like to give students opportunities to learn about past figures in a way that can be fun and meaningful to them. I have assigned individual students one figure to research and then had them circulate the classroom talking to other figures, trying to find their best and worst matches. For this lesson, I had students make posters for their figures that were displayed to provide a visual aid of the atmosphere of the Roaring 20s.
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In my U.S. history class of 11th grade students, I have a Russian foreign exchange student. Many of the other students in the class bring her nationality up quite often, but this was especially true as we got into the WWII unit. I chose to use their discourse as an opportunity to allow the student to voice her knowledge of Stalin and the education that she received in Russia about WWII.
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