My Senior Year

When my teacher first handed us the packet on Samuel Taylor Coleridge and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, my first thoughts were along the lines of “please no”; I barely remember anything about Coleridge or the Rime. However, after having a day to think about it, I think this is the perfect piece to create a lesson for. It will give me a lot of practice on making a lesson plan and it will help me to better use integrated instruction in my classroom. Also, I will have the help of my teacher and my group mates to make this integrated instruction lesson for my class.

So far, my group mates and I have only discussed the SOL’s and NCTE goals that we want to focus our lesson around. Today we will probably go more in depth about what we are doing and how we can give our students a classroom with more integrated instruction. Also, we are supposed to give our students a real reason to be writing and I am really looking forward to finding a way to make it authentic. This entire lesson will help me to become a better teacher because I will be making a lesson plan on something that I’m really not that interested in but that I need to interest my students in.