April 26th Daily Plan

9th Grade - Freshmen continued reading in "Romeo and Juliet," and we dedicated this entire class period to getting further in the text by reading it out loud, as a class. This is in large part because Act 1 is very important in terms of setting up the story that follows, and I want to make sure that students are exactly on the same page (literally and figuratively) in terms of comprehending the storyline.

As we get further into the story, I will start having students work more in small groups and individually, and then returning to a full class to discuss and assess.

As a class, we read through the end of Act 1 Scene 3, moving through these opening scenes slowly to allow students to get used to the old English writing style. We will move on to Scene 4 and 5 tomorrow, but had a preliminary discussion about the role and purpose of dreaming, since Act  1 Scene 4 discusses dreams.

10th Grade - We continued reading the Freire article about different methods of education, and I provided students with a simplified explanation of "Banking" vs. "Problem-Posing" education. We discussed some of the pros and cons of each system (for example, banking education can be viewed as having a lack of pragmatic application for students, but problem posing education can be incredibly difficult to standardize across a wide area, and can make it difficult to provide equal levels of education, even within one building).

Students were asked to reflect on this article for their 2nd PORTFOLIO ENTRY.

Questions I provided -

- Do you agree or disagree with the author? What do you think about "banking" vs "problem-posing" education?

- Should all schools teach the same general material?

- Who should decide what all students should know?

- Is it possible to match student's individual goals within the regular school system?

- Students have more access to information and technology now than ever before.
Is this a positive change, or are there negative implications?
(students could answer one, two, all, none, but have to write approx. 1 full page as a response).

HOMEWORK - 5th Period - Finish Freire Essay.