All right, I'm not sure what happened but my post from the last day at San Miguel didn't get posted after I wrote it. So I am going to try and write all the same things, it might be a little condensed.
I finished teaching my poetry lesson. This was the last day of the 3 day lesson. By the third day, I felt a lot more comfortable teaching in front of these students. They still were really supportive of me and excited that I was practicing my teaching on them. Today I introduced themed poems and gave them several examples of love poems (including one that I had written). I was really excited after the lesson was over because I think that I inspired them. Almost all of the students got started writing their own poems right when I was done talking. They all got a pretty good start on their poems. I got to read a few of them. One was about love for a grandfather, one was more of a joke but it was about love for Burger King. Either way, the students were writing poetry.
The rest of the day was pretty normal. I had more opportunities to work and help the students. I was working on math with a couple girls. Their math was so hard and I felt so stupid! I also felt very badly because I helped one girl with some problems. Then when Ms.Gergen corrected her math, the only two problems that the girl got wrong were the ones that I helped her with. I was sorry for her because that brought down her grade.
At the end of the day saying goodbye was not that hard. I said thank you and goodbye to the class and got some hugs from the girls. I talked to Ms.Gergen for a while before saying goodbye. She is trying to plan a trip for the 8th graders to come up to St.Bens and do a college visit. I hope I will get to see them all again.
1 comment:
Sounds very exciting that you were able to teach! It will get easier and easier as we get more experience and practice! Sounds like it was a lot of fun!
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