Category Archives: Assignment 2: Content-Area Text Trade

Jingyi did a great job teaching a short lesson on mutagens using my slides and graphic organizer. It was amazing to see how she presented the lesson and made it her own by incorporating fun cultural reference, like the teenage … Continue reading →

Amanda presented my lesson on the nitrogen cycle and the phosphorus cycle in an engaging way that showed her understanding and enthusiasm on this topic. She paced her presentation well and explained the usage of the graphic organizer in a … Continue reading →

Example Text Characterization Graphic Organizer Kirsten presented my lesson and graphic organizer with enthusiam and eloquence. She began by expertly explaining the literary device of characterization along with its two types: direct and indirect. She read the example text to … Continue reading →

Lauren did a fantastic job of taking my mini-demo and making it her own. She facilitated group participation by having each classmate try to demonstrate a step using their hands and making the motions they thought would be correlated with … Continue reading →

Janna was able to explain the concepts and elements required for our group member who are non-French speaking. She provided coherent and logical explanations that made it seamless for the group members to learn both how to conjugate travel-related verbs … Continue reading →

Jenna did a very good job at introducing the author Elie Wiesel to our group. She first gave them biographical information in English and had them filled in the graphic organizer. Then she made them watch the short biography I … Continue reading →

For my assignment I choose some horror microfiction as my text with the lesson being to identify and list any words that contribute to the tone or atmosphere of horror. Students then used that as a warm up to a … Continue reading →

Makaela did an excellent job presenting the lesson on swing rhythm. During my lesson presentation, she gave me great feedback so I revised and edited my graphic organizer. Using her calm and steady voice Makaela engaged everyone in the group … Continue reading →

My partner Grant had done an excellent job teaching our learners about creating tonal value using a specific shading technique.  He was well prepared in materials and content knowledge.  It was interesting to see how he would go about teaching … Continue reading →

Bethany did a wonderful job explaining both the recipe and the role of yeast as a leavener. I think the graphic organizer was more useful in understanding the concept than I originally thought and was made better from Bethany’s input. I … Continue reading →