I thought this was a pretty good paice. I really liked the part about adding hip hop to the poetry unit. It is a great idea. I remember having a student teacher my freshman year of high school who used rap music to teach poetry...though it was old and none of us knew any of the songs he used because he had to be sure they would be clean. But it was still cool. It's also something I've been thinking about doing in the poetry unit at my placement. Though I want something more in today's society. I think I'll be able to find something that is appropriate as well as be something from today's music. I think it's a great idea to incorporate music, it makes it more entertaining to the students as well. It also shows them everyday use of what we are teaching them.
I also enjoyed the part about Race and justice in society unit. I was taken a back by the fact that they showed A Time to Kill in class since it is a very series movie. But as I kept reading it was interesting to learn how their students reacted to the movie, and how they could find things in their own lives to relate to it. I liked the idea about having a recreation of the trial. Those are always fun and makes the students think. I remember doing one in fifth grade about Shiloh, and it was fun and also showed us how the justice system works. It still surprised me that they used a time to kill, but I have to wonder how long it took them to watch it since they spent half the class time watching then the other half discussing. That had to take at least two weeks. And that's a lot of time to spend watching one movie, although it was more then just watching the movie and included discussion and social, and almost a disection of the movie.
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