Observation Reflection-4/8/11

During my observations I was able to observe students reading a folklore tale called "Why Mosquitoes buzz in people's ears". After the story students were assigned to write a essay describing the reasons why mosquitoes buzzed in people's ears. In this essay students had to write at least 4 paragraphs. Each paragraph had to have 3 supporting sentences to back up the folklore.

I was honestly excited because this was the first time I was able to see the students writing ability outside of them working on the practice ELA exams. The class was definitely divided some students had exceptional stories where other students stories could barely write a proper beginning sentence. A lot of the students had great supporting details from the story which made their essay stick out from the rest of the class.