Due date for booktalk forms from students....
And only one student (out of 30) turned in the forms. I was a little frustrated and decided to go to plan B. Plan B consists of calling on individual students to present booktalks. This was a valuable lesson learned! I have learned that you must speak to each child personally and explain what you want - even though I handed out a form. I think I may have enough students to complete my booktalk unit and keep diversity in genre. Hopefully this week will get better.
I also moved forward with the collaborative unit for the high school history teacher. Originally, I had two days to teach this unit. Now I have one class period! He felt that my teaching his kids was taking away from his valuable teaching time. I guess I am getting firsthand knowledge on what it feels like to try and collaborate with teachers who feel stretched to the max. I will do the best I can with one day even though I will not be able to fit in all the content for the entire unit I need to complete for my reference class. There is opportunity for me to possibly teach the same students at a later date and time.
