Block Format-
1. Role: Teachers play the role of a mentor. Teaches life skills, knowledge, and a friend.
Teachers: Mrs. Kragen- 6th grade English and Social Studies, Mrs. Gibbons- 9th grade World History
Both teachers are a positive example.
2. -Mrs. Kragen was a professional editor. This allowed her to find mistakes that we made in our papers.
She would assign us book reports specifically on the plot or theme, they had to be written in one tense and every time you switched tense, you would lose 2% off your grade. This was meant help the students better organize their ideas. Then we were given a chance to correct the paper and improve our grade.
She would also assign 10 sentences a week on one type of writing composition, she would then take the best one and show why it was the best so that everyone would better learn that type of writing composition.
Mrs. Kragen enjoyed teaching and she tried to make some of the assignments fun.
During the Greek unit we had "Olympic games" and a quiz bowl. We had to learn about Greece and then got to apply it in a fun way.
The class was split up into 2 groups and each group had to create their own ancient civilization based on criteria and it had to be centered around a belief, crazy or believable. We then had to leave clues for the other team who would act as archaeologists in the future and try to decipher the civilization. By doing this we learned how to connect information.
Mrs. Kragen assigned challenging work. This made us have to work harder to get good grades and we ended up learning more about the subject.
We had to do something called National History Day which is a big project on one important person or thing from the past century. You would have to research it for a couple months then you would put together a big poster board or a presentation displaying the information. A couple groups made it to the finals of regional and one made it to state. You learn research habits and information on the subject.
-Mrs. Gibbons tried to improve presentation skills/communication to a crowd. Skills for jobs.
The first assignment we were given was a powerpoint presentation.
All of our final assignments were presentations. This helped make us feel more comfortable talking in front of an audience and will help when we have a job. They were graded progressively.
Mrs. Gibbons tried to prepare us for college.
Our textbook was a college level world history textbook. This was to prepare us for how college level textbooks would be written so that we wouldn't be overwhelmed in college.
She would spend time in class explaining how to find the most important information in textbooks and what might appear on a test.
She taught us how to take in-depth notes- C-Notes.
Mrs. Gibbons could understand and relate to the students.
She got her PhD during the school year and was able to understand how some of the students felt from the homework from all the classes.
She would give example from her life relating to skills or what we were learning. Sometimes should would just share interesting parts about her life and we would talk about that if we finished the work early for that day.
3. While Mrs. Kragen and Mrs. Gibbons both cared about their students education, Mrs. Kragen focused more on middle school and high school skills while Mrs. Gibbons focused mainly on college habits and skills that would assist you in the workplace.
Point by Point Format-
1. Will most likely be my introductory paragraph with block type body.
2. They were both highly educated, PhD and Editor. This allowed them to better understand the material and they were able to give better feed back on assignments and be more strict on the grading.
The both tried to make the assignments more fun or interesting so that the students would be more willing to learn. Either life stories and discussions or fun activities.
Improve core skills- life skills and school skills/habits. Presentations, big research projects, correct studying habits.
3. Basically the same as the block format.
Third Organizational Format-
Basically a combination of the previous formats, more of a finishing tactic to use on the final draft of the paper than a format for the paper.
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