Thursday

Thursday

Today I visited Mr. Bortons first hour again. We had another session of correctives and extensions with the students working on their individual projects. Many of the students worked with partners anyway because they like it and have gotten used to it. It is good to see many of the students putting their heads together to solve problems. Many in the class are doing correctives this time but they seemed to be involved well and understanding the work for the most part. One boy kept reading Calvin and Hobbes. I tried to get him to do his work (which he had to go back and redo the questions he had missed) and he tried on it for a few minutes and then told me that he was going to do it at home instead. He was sure that the answers he marked were correct and when I tried to help him understand otherwise he resisted that he wasn't correct. Some of the extension students were reading from the book and doing reports on viruses, antibiotic resistance, etc. One boy was asking me all about antibiotic medicine and bacteria resistance. It was fun talking to him because he was really interested in it and was telling me about when he had to take antibiotics. More students than I expected were doing report extensions on things they were more interested in and some of the students were asking me to explain things to them what they read in the book but didn't understand. Sometimes they get frustrated when they try and answer a problem and I try to teach them how to figure it out. Simple things such as using the index and glossary and ruling out certain answers in multiple choice problems are still being learned by many of the students at this age.