Term Project Progress Report

Here is Katie's and my progress report:

What We’ve Done So Far

• Made a 10^th grade lesson plan in Seton Hill’s official format (including behavioral objectives, PA Academic Standards, an anticipatory set, lesson sequences, closure, and evaluation).

• Made handout for students with a run-down of the four types of literary criticism we are dealing with (reader-response, mimetic, intertextuality, and author intent).

• Made note card game which requires students to match types of criticism, a definition, an example, and a question that one might ask about the text when using that type of criticism.

• Made exit-slip evaluation forms for the students to fill out, so that we can evaluate what they learned and how effective our lesson was. 

• Contacted both principal of the school and cooperating English teacher to clear our teaching of the lesson.

• E-mailed lesson plan to cooperating teacher for approval.

• Practiced lesson plan in front of audience to check on the time factor and to make sure our lesson plan will run smoothly and makes sense to others.

• Gathered/made additional materials for lesson (including prizes, painting, poster paper, examples of literary criticism vs. book review, etc.)

What We Plan to Do

• Do a final run through of lesson.

• Double check to make sure all materials are in order.

• Present lesson on Friday, April 3 to a 10^th grade English class.

• Look over students’ exit-slips to see how effective our lesson was.

• Look over teacher evaluation of our lesson.

• Consider how smoothly our lesson went (did it go over time, did we stumble, etc.)

• Consider what we could do to improve the lesson. 

• Consider what worked really well in our lesson.

What We Plan to Produce

• Self-reflections on the lesson.

• Presentation organized from our self-reflections (so that classmates can see what worked well in teaching literary criticism and what didn’t work so well).