Poetry

My favorite poem is The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost. I enjoy this poem very much and I could see using it in the classroom. Younger children might not understand it all but it would make a good activity to interpret what it means to each child and it could lead to start writing poetry, since it does not have a lot of rhyming words it would be a good poem to show children that not all poems have to rhyme. I just really like this poem because to me it shows something I want to do and that is travel the least traveled road. I think that it is important for me to make my own path in life, no matter how hard it gets.

freedom writers

What i thought was funny was the fact that i watched this movie over the weekend. The clip that we watched in class is one of my favorites of the movie. It is the first time that she is really getting through to the students and it is Revelation to her that she is going about her teaching all the wrong way. I think that as future teachers that sometimes we will have these moments. When we realize that we need to switch things up to get through to some of our students. Maybe not this harshly that she had to go to get the students to see something. I love that movie because I want to be able to make a difference in a student's life like that one day.

peer conferencing

Peer Conferencing was very helpful for me because they helped me find all of my mistakes and errors in my paper. It is not a common practice for me to let others read my work because I do not like people to judge my work other then my teacher. Pros to using it is students get to see their mistakes that they might not have found by themselves. It gives students a chance to practice their skills of editing and proof reading their papers and other classmates papers. It also gives students a chance to get ideas from others, and techniques to write with from other students. Cons to peer conferencing: One is some students might feel embarrassed by their writing and having another peer see it might bother them. A peer might suggest something in the paper and it be wrong and the other student changes it. I do think it is good to use in the classroom but not the only thing to use in the classroom.