Week 8 Oct. 10th - 14th

Your lesson took less time than expected. How could you utilize the time left for your subject?

     If I have taken away one thing from my time as a pre-service teacher, it is that you can never have too many lesson plans! It is always better to over plan for a lesson than not have enough lessons to fill your time. However, situations like this do occur, however I feel lucky being an English major because it wouldn't be hard to find time fillers for 15 to 20 minutes.
  One way I would utilize the time is by having the students complete short writing assignments. I could provide them with a prompt and tell them to focus on a particular problem that I see recurring in their work. I actually had to do this exact assignment because the students had finished what I had planned for the day much quicker than I had expected. My students have a really hard time with using adjectives and making their writing more descriptive. Therefore, during Halloween, I created a short writing prompt about a haunted mansion. I gave the students an example (which they actually used as the prompt) and had them write about a hanuted mansion using at least 10 adjectives. This way it's a short writing assignment but they are getting the necessary lesson.