I thought that all the activities were really great, and the food we got almost everyday was excellent. They really kept my attention with all the activities because it made me stand up and move around and even have something to look forward to. They were all well prepared and had alot of things to show to the class.
I thought how intense the hippies were, was really surprising. I knew that hippies were really "weird" in modern day terms, with having sex anywhere, anytime, anyone. How they would spend hours just sitting in a parking stall sleeping, etc... But the thing that surprised me the most was that there weren't that many hippies in the time. I always thought that hippies ruled the U.S. in the 1960s, but that wasn't true. It was a small percentage, and most of the people in the 1960s were "civilized" in modern day terms.
P.S. i loved those reeses cupcake stuff char made. they were really really good
Monday, May 28, 2007
Thursday, May 10, 2007
1950s reflection
This was my class and i have to say, its really difficult to teach a class. I got lot of research, but it didn't seem like it was enough during class, and i just wanted the time to end. I was always worried that we wouldn't have enough things to do that takes up the whole class. We tried to get some fun activities, but its hard to plan out whats going to happen in the class, like whats going to be said and how long discussions are going to last.
It was really hard to get people to learn things when you don't know everything about the 1950s, but all in all it was pretty fun to try teaching out. Mr. Cheever and Mr. Mindich was a great help when we had discussions because they had so much little small information that relates really well to the topic. For future groups who plan to have discussions, they'll save ya.
Maybe we had such a difficult time because it was mainly just me and eric doing all the work, when its suppose to be groups of 4-5. We had a really lacking group and so we didn't really get things that really were in depth of our topic, but we really did try.
For example, we didn't know what the beatniks were at all. We tried looking up information on it, but we couldn't find anything that would help too much. We even tried asking some other history teachers, but we only got 5 sentences worth of information, like everywhere else.
It was nice to get compliments of being good teachers.
It was really hard to get people to learn things when you don't know everything about the 1950s, but all in all it was pretty fun to try teaching out. Mr. Cheever and Mr. Mindich was a great help when we had discussions because they had so much little small information that relates really well to the topic. For future groups who plan to have discussions, they'll save ya.
Maybe we had such a difficult time because it was mainly just me and eric doing all the work, when its suppose to be groups of 4-5. We had a really lacking group and so we didn't really get things that really were in depth of our topic, but we really did try.
For example, we didn't know what the beatniks were at all. We tried looking up information on it, but we couldn't find anything that would help too much. We even tried asking some other history teachers, but we only got 5 sentences worth of information, like everywhere else.
It was nice to get compliments of being good teachers.
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