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There was no class yesterday because of the SONA. Plans got ruined–the HRR quiz and activity to be specific. Ma’am Teret told me that we’ll just give them a take-home test and activity. She liked 3 of my activities so we added that to her test part.

A couple of Educ students who were my former classmates in various subjects came to observe Ma’am Teret’s class for their Ed121 class. The problem was it was my class they were going to observe.

Gosh. The panic I felt that time! I wasn’t really very prepared to do CanTales today. Sure, I had a lesson plan but since I told them Friday to do advanced reading of it over the weekend for Tuesday… and there was no class yesterday, the kids would think it would be moved too. I figured… “To hell with it.”

On the way, I was still very nervous because I had observers in the classroom. What if I mess up? Shouganai na~ Nothing I could do about it really.

In class, I just discussed the take-home activities. I thought it would be simple, but noooo they had so many questions about it. TOO many questions. What was so hard with “You are to submit 2 sheets of papers.” That they had to ask me again and again if they were going to just choose 1 from the two activities? Those kids always have delaying tactics up their sleeves!

Acter I got through explaining the assignment, I told them that it was due Thursday. Actually, I forgot to ask Ma’am Teret when it was to be due, but I figured that they had a three-day weekend to read the book and it was a take-home activity, and they had a Wednesday to work on it. Thursday would be fine. They begged and begged to move it to Friday, but it was the submission day for their ballads and it wouldn’t be a good thing for them to have to submit both on the same day. I told them that I knew they were going to cram for the one of them earlier. That seemed to make sense to some of them.

I unlocked the vocabulary for Canterbury Tales and surprisingly, they were very much participating. Probably because of the presence of the visitors. I tried to bring out how the words were used in the text and tried to elaborate because there was nothing else to do. But I finished the vocabulary words with still 15 minutes to spare. I asked who read and only Joseph and Dancel did.

So we discussed a little on the Medieval Period. What were the roles of men and women? What different classes were present at that time and so on. I asked them to draw from what they’ve read from Crystal Cave and King Arthur.

With a little help from Joseph and Dancel, I was able to somewhat start on CanTales. I introduced the four characters mentioned and I told them to keep in mind the descriptions they gave for them when they read CanTales.

Ma’am said I should’ve read in class the poem though. Oh well. Maybe if they don’t read, I will.

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