The teaching process seemed to go alright. I got a little frazzled and did not show the timeline in as much detail as I had originally planned. I was not sure if the students were all that engaged when reading the pilgrim letters, but towards the end they wanted to hear more indicating that they enjoyed them the first time. The question and answer portion confused the students a bit, but they really got into it once they understood. It seemed like the actually creating of their stories and timelines went well. They all got into the kidspiration thing, adding pictures and colors once they had some of the timeline aspects down. None of the students wanted to read their stories to the class, but that was alright. Instead, I read more of the Pilgrim letters.
I learned that it did not take as much time as I thought to create the timelines so I could have spent more time on extra instruction. I could have expanded more on my timeline and done more with my teaching time.
I learned that a visual aid or interactive component to stories would have improved the experience for some of the students and that using a puppet or costumed person would have been a better way to do the letter. They would have understood that portion better had I done something with a character acting that part rather than just requesting questions from them.
I think if I went more in depth with the timeline I made the alignment with goals and objectives could have been improved. However, they did do what was asked of them, and achieved what I was hoping they would achieve. All three timelines included what they were meant to include. All of the students seemed to understand the concepts, and asked informed questions when they were having trouble with certain events. They definitely met the goals of this lesson, and completed what the objectives required of them.
There was not much modification necessary, however in the creation of the timeline some students needed some additional resources, so I gave them the letters and my timeline as references. This seemed to help with the trouble they were having with event orders and so on.
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