English 10

The Book Night by Elie Wiesel: Introduction—Students appear to really enjoy the teacher. The class is very respectful of her and the order of the classroom.
The teacher demands authority. She has the class schedule written on the board—allows the students to know what is going on and what is expected for that day.
Schedule:
Start with movie
Final exam
Check and go over vocab list
Start Night

The students just finished the book Monster by Walter Dean Myers—are now watching a movie on the book. It is important to implement technology in the class room as long as the teacher supports it with instruction. The students are not paying attention to the movie but are talking to their friends. This negates the purpose of using technology.

The students are allowed to eat in class. First impression: that the students respected the teacher is now being changed for the impression that the students feel the teacher is more their “friend” then instructor. This can have good and bad benefits (How do I want to run my class room?? I def. want authority—but I also want to establish a friendly relationship. There has to be a happy medium).

Before handing out the test after the movie, the teacher goes over questions (which are basically the same questions on the test) and had the students answer them (in preparation to the test). I do not agree with this at all! It is basically giving the students a cheat sheet.

She goes around the class room and grades if the students did it. She does not make a big deal if the they don’t have their hw but records it
--this is the end of the school year. If the students are not doing the hw there is really nothing she can do to promote/motivate them. I wonder how she acted in the start of the school year. I will have consequences to not having ones work done. By allowing students to feel that they do not have to do their work teaches lazy, and does not hold them accountable.

Went over vocab list one:
Decree
Cabbala
Emigrate
Convoy
Encumbered
Expel
Synagogue
Ghetto
Aryan
Truncheon

She goes around the class room and grades if the students did it. She does not make a big deal if the they don’t have their hw but records it--this is the end of the school year. If the students are not doing the hw there is really nothing she can do to promote/motivate them. I wonder how she acted in the start of the school year. I will have consequences to not having ones work done. By allowing students to feel that they do not have to do their work teaches lazy, and does not hold them accountable.