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Dec. 4th, 2006 09:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hathycolI'm worried.
I've not even quit the job from the Ruby yet and I'm taking on another one. Only two-and-a-bit hours a week, admittingly, for damn sight better pay AND some petrol costs, but essentially I've agreed to tutor a 14 year old girl (a girl who doesn't go to school, mind, so I'll be her only connection to learning OMFG, but I've told her parents this so there we are) who lives a wee way out of Dundee, and part of me is totally jazzed and planning lessons in my head. I am planning monthly books, as if I'm only seeing her once a week, I think that she should be reading a lot. Thus far, I have Animal Farm, Of Mice and Men, possibly To Kill A Mockingbird if I think she can take it, Johnny and the Dead and perhaps a book of poetry, or a play - any suggestions? Plus I plan to take her through Shakespeare (Macbeth - it worked for me at the same age, which means I have some books on it at home, a frightening knowledge of it, and there's a good chance of it being somewhere she might be able to see it live. Maybe the BBC version?), and over Christmas I'll sort out a monthly plan, so to speak, and take her through creative and technical writing. Her parents want basic skills - I can do those - and just to enjoy the subject, which I hope I can do.
What did everyone here do in Year 9 (England and Wales), Second Year (Scotland) or whatever-it-is when you're 13-14?
(Yes, I am going to sneak in a lot of history lessons, because I genuinely think that context is vitally important for learning. Shush.)
But from another perspective, it's sort of depressing me, because I wish I had a bit more free time, and my evenings to myself. It'll only be weekdays - I want my weekends again next semester - but I may have to do Lesson Planning.
Still, if I hate this, there's the teaching option out and I know nice and early. (Before, you know, applying for teaching college.) The job is only until about May (in fact, I will SAY it is until May as I have Exams) but argh. It will be a Learning Experience. Yes. A Learning Experience with pay. If I put it that way, it sounds a bit better and my COMPLETE PANIC goes away.
This took me too long to write because I am broken. Argh. And yet I only have another 150 words on my gobbet and I'm pleading off because of pain. Odd, that.
I've not even quit the job from the Ruby yet and I'm taking on another one. Only two-and-a-bit hours a week, admittingly, for damn sight better pay AND some petrol costs, but essentially I've agreed to tutor a 14 year old girl (a girl who doesn't go to school, mind, so I'll be her only connection to learning OMFG, but I've told her parents this so there we are) who lives a wee way out of Dundee, and part of me is totally jazzed and planning lessons in my head. I am planning monthly books, as if I'm only seeing her once a week, I think that she should be reading a lot. Thus far, I have Animal Farm, Of Mice and Men, possibly To Kill A Mockingbird if I think she can take it, Johnny and the Dead and perhaps a book of poetry, or a play - any suggestions? Plus I plan to take her through Shakespeare (Macbeth - it worked for me at the same age, which means I have some books on it at home, a frightening knowledge of it, and there's a good chance of it being somewhere she might be able to see it live. Maybe the BBC version?), and over Christmas I'll sort out a monthly plan, so to speak, and take her through creative and technical writing. Her parents want basic skills - I can do those - and just to enjoy the subject, which I hope I can do.
What did everyone here do in Year 9 (England and Wales), Second Year (Scotland) or whatever-it-is when you're 13-14?
(Yes, I am going to sneak in a lot of history lessons, because I genuinely think that context is vitally important for learning. Shush.)
But from another perspective, it's sort of depressing me, because I wish I had a bit more free time, and my evenings to myself. It'll only be weekdays - I want my weekends again next semester - but I may have to do Lesson Planning.
Still, if I hate this, there's the teaching option out and I know nice and early. (Before, you know, applying for teaching college.) The job is only until about May (in fact, I will SAY it is until May as I have Exams) but argh. It will be a Learning Experience. Yes. A Learning Experience with pay. If I put it that way, it sounds a bit better and my COMPLETE PANIC goes away.
This took me too long to write because I am broken. Argh. And yet I only have another 150 words on my gobbet and I'm pleading off because of pain. Odd, that.
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Date: 2006-12-05 12:45 am (UTC)We did The Rime of the Ancient Mariner as well, which is awesome.
What about Pride and Prejudice? We never did it at school, but I would much rather have done that than Jane Eyre, which we did in year 10. Plus if she's seen the film/tv series she'll already have an idea of the story.
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Date: 2006-12-05 10:04 am (UTC)Good luck teaching though
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Date: 2006-12-05 10:33 pm (UTC)some jeanette winterson wouldn't go amiss, though i'd recommend written on the body rather than that oranges trash.
teaching isn't actually that hard - i've tried it with voice, and it's best if you do a little planning (if she has brains she will KNOW) but generally you can get by with a big pile of books and "ooh, this one's good, or try this"
i think you'll enjoy it :)
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