Last Friday wrapped up my 3 week teaching span of having to teach 2 completely different novels at the same time! I was teaching The Hobbit to my regular ninth grade English classes and The Hound of the Baskervilles to my ninth grade English Honors classes. Fortunately, the Honors classes have wrapped up their novel because it was only 15 chapters long and they took their final test on Friday. The other classes still have about 2 weeks until we finish The Hobbit, but I think I can better focus on just one novel rather than two.
Teaching two novels at the same time really wasn't as hard as I thought that it would be. The thing that took the most time was reading the novels along with the students because I had never read either one until now. I had to read with students, which was a chapter a night, so that I could keep up with what I was supposed to teach them the next day in class. The hardest thing for me was trying to remember what happened in which novel, so I had to take a lot of notes in order to keep my facts straight. I think I did a really good job with the two novels though because my Honors students took their test on Friday and most of them got A's or B's, so I'm pretty proud of myself.
Having done this during my student teaching really shows me that I can do anything when I put my mind to it. I had to read these novels on top of all of the other work that I've had to do as well. It shows me that putting effort into something really does work and the students' test scores have provided that evidence. This was a great learning experience for me and I'm glad that my mentor teacher made me do it. She always seems to know just what it is that I need to learn and she always pushes me to do things I think I can't.
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