Hello!

Hi everyone. Just as an FYI: this blog was created so that I can reflect each week on my intern student teaching experience. I will be doing my teaching at East Fairmont High School in Mrs. DeVault's 9th grade classrooms. I am really excited to get started this semester. My Action Research project is going to be a Sustained Silent Reading program (Bee Reading!) and the students will be required to read for ten minutes at the beginning of each period. Mrs. DeVault and I are still trying to figure out how everything will work out with each classroom.

I am glad to be working with her because she is a very organized person and she has most of the semester already drafted out. She will start out with a unit on short stories and I will help where I can. Then, we will move into a unit on poetry where I will be doing most of the teaching. Finally, we will do work on the Odyssey and hopefully finish up before Christmas break. It looks like it is going to be a good semester and I like that we are laying a lot of things out ahead of time. I am sure that it will be stressful at times but we will be ready to overcome those challenges when we get there. Stay tuned!