Helen Keller Reading Assignment

Ronald 80
Micheal 70
Robert 90
Angela 80

Test modifications: Robert's test was read orally. Ronald and he both had ample chance to correct their quizzes before grading. In reality they failed, but trough facilitation by the teacher they passed.

Micheal also had teacher facilitation during the test but was mainly the one responsible for his answers.

The lessons this week were strenuous and mostly successful. We covered Helen Keller in reading class. The reasons for the lessons struggling to be successful was student attention span and needing more creativity in doing the monotonous parts of the lesson. I tried to squeeze too much material into each day and cover as many bases as possible. To do it differently I would plan to focus more on one part of the content and stretch it out over the week. Which is what I plan to do this week.

In the lessons I introduced the students to Helen Keller through reading a story, introducing them to vocabulary, and journaling. To engage the student I had one student put his hand in water while I fingerspelled water like Helen Keller's teacher. I blind folded them and fingerspelled in their hands to simulate how Keller lived. I showed them a video online that showed Keller using braille, tactile speech, and tactile sign. I also printed braille for them and had them write their own names using braille.

My teacher suggested that I cover less concepts and focus more one or two general concepts in reading.

The ideas for this next week is to read a chapter from a book on basketball. The students will develop the characters, create a vocabulary log, and read their assignment. I will introduce the game of basketball and use videos and overheads to explain- along with vocabulary practice using a basketball.