Lesson plans progress

[ennierda]

Monthly pacing guides for two out of three classes are done! Sitting at a cafe without my laptop yielded an extraordinary amount of work completed :)

The third is a seniors honors class. The old teacher kept the pacing guide roughly the same as the regular class, except that all writing assignments had a 10% longer word requirement, plus maybe one extra short novel. The department chair made it clear that she does not like this arrangement, and so I need to give some more thought and consideration to what I want to do. Probably I will choose a few short stories that have more challenging themes and more subtlety and mix those into the syllabus. No extra novels. I don't think I could handle it.

Next steps: I have the literature text books and can start drawing up daily plans for the literature sections of the two classes with finished pacing guides, but for the grammar sections I am going to have to get access to the school. For some reason I did not grab the grammar, vocab and SAT workbooks at the beginning of summer.

Comments

[megasus4.livejournal.com]

More challenging themes, more actual literary analysis, more in-depth discussion, higher standards in writing, etc.

Although I admit I say this never having taught an honors course. :\ (The department head is the Brit Lit honors teacher--I won't get that course until she retires.)

[ennierda.livejournal.com]

We're a very small school - only three teachers for the entire English department. We've each got at least one honors course.