Katlynn+Craig

It was totally awesome being at the MSU v. Wisconsin game. It is defintely one of my favorite moments of my senior year so far. Being able to share that "Hail Mary" pass with all of MSU was so cool.



I'm also a huge music nerd. When I was in high school I participated in marching band for all four years and it was the best part of my high school experience. I think that if I hadn't been part band, my high school experience would have turned out so different. For four years I got to take part in an amazing band program, with fantastic directors. My band directors that I had were some of the most influential people in my life. I learned so much from them as both teachers and as mentors. Because you are around the same people so often they become more then teachers. Because of their belief in us, our band was able to grow together, respect each other and learn to survive life outside of band.

When I look to who I want to become as teacher, my band directors are some of the first people who come to mind. They challenged us to be better then what we thought we could be. That's the type of teacher I want to be. I want to inspire my students, for them to want to reach beyond what they think they can do and be amazing.

**Lesson Plan for 9/11**

**Begining of Class (5 minutes)** I would start the class off by showing a video of President Bush's speech after the September 11th attacks. I would want to set the mood for my students so that they understand the seriousness of the situation. Because a lot of them were so young when the attacks occured, the impact and signifance of the event might mean less to them.


 * Discussion about the attacks (20 mintues) **
 * I would start a basic back and forth discussion about 9/11. I would ask the students what they know, what they don't know and what they don't understand.
 * Also talk about what the students may or may not remember from that day if they were alive then.


 * Activity (15 minutes) **
 * Compare and contrasts the differeneces in a pre-9/11 society to a post 9/11 society


 * Ticket-out-the-door **
 * write down what a post 9/11 society feels to you

DAY 1 Introduction to the Prison System -Talk about the different types of crimes that would require prison time Assesment -What do you think prison is like?

DAY 2 Discuss State Prisons -What constitues a state crime Assesment -Do you think all state crimes fit the bill of being a state crime?

DAY 3 Discuss Federal Prisons -What is a federal crime -Can something fall into both state and federal crimes Assesment -Do you think all federal crimes fit the bill of being a federal crime?

DAY 4 Guest Speaker -Have a speaker from the local jail come a speak to the class -Discuss the simlarites and differences of prisons and jails Assesment -what did you learn from the guest speaker that you didn't know before?

DAY 5 Reflection -Reflect on the prison system -Would you ever want to work their? -What are some misconceptions that people have?

This is my "guided reading" for Chapter 3. I decided to do a prezi (first time ever) so hopefully it turned out ok.

Chapter 3 - Prezi

This course is designed to look at the evolution of media and the internet within the last fifteen years. This class will be focusing on things like facebook, Twitter, MySpace, tumblr, and television and how they have grown. We are going to examine how these types of media have been able to influence and shape key moments in American and global history.
 * The Social Media Revolution**
 * Course Description**

We will also examine the benefits and downfalls of having instant information in the palm of our hands. Some questions to ponder as we work through this are: Are we as a nation more impatient? Have we become a generation of muliti-taskers? Does social media restrict the things we do? As we discuss and talk about different issues in this course, we can keep these questions in mind to help guide us through.

One unit that this course is going to focus on is the impact of the online social media. Sites like Twitter and Facebook allow for others to see what you’ve been up to instantaneously, usually without a filter. It’s a new way of gathering information, especially on people that aren’t close friends. What are some downsides to this? With this instant gratification and validation from the interent, does that mean that you are constantly wanting approval from people online? We will also explore privacy and how this has changed over the past 10 years. Do we have more or less privacy in 2011 then in 2001?
 * Units**

Another unit that is going to be covered is the role of the cell phone in our lives. The phone originally started off as something that was the size of the brick and only the privileged had. Now twenty years later, we have phones the size of a credit card that are mini-computers. Almost everyone the age of 14 or older has a phone now. What does this mean for this new “technological generation”? These are just a couple of things to keep in mind when we cover this unit . A third focus of this class is going to be on newspapers, television and radio. Are these things dying out or are these forms of media growing? Is there a benefit to reading the daily paper online and watching video clips online rather than on TV? Is the way we think becoming vastly different then of our parent’s generation? We are also going to focus on the history of the newspaper, radios and television.

We are going to have a variety of texts, movies, magazines, and videos to explore and analyze together as a class. We are going to explore the Apple Company’s website and find out why their products are so tendy right now. We are going to explore facebook and Twitter and decided which one is better or worse. We are also going use newspapers both in print and online and see which is more beneficial.
 * Media Being Used**

The Facebook Effect The Fall of MySpace: Race, Class and Social Media [|How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live] [|Bullying]

There are going to be weekly assignemetns based on what has been learned so far in class. A lot of these assignemtns are going to be opinions pieces however. Although I may be asking for your opinion, which does not mean that you can slack off until the last minute. You need to be prepared to debate and share you opion with your classmates and also be ready to defend your argument. There is going to be a lot of in class discussion because I want to know what everyone thinks about what we are talking about.
 * Assignments/Tests**

Tests are going to be more writing based rather than multiple-choice based. I don’t believe that there are many right or wrong answers when it comes to social media, however there are opinions and I would like to hear yours.

__Reflection for the week__: Talk with your colleague correspondent about how she or he creates unit plans. Write a summary of what the correspondent shares with you, what you think about the response, and how you make sense of unit planning after the excursions we've had in unit planning over the past few weeks

Reflection 4: When I talked with my colleage correspondent about how she creates unit plans she told me that it depended on what unit/idea she was teaching. If it is something that she doesn't have much knowledge about then she plans everything out so that there isn't any lag time. If it was something that she knew a lot about, then she let herself have a little more flexible time and didn't plan every last detail.

I like what she said, but I don't think that its ideal for every classroom. She teaches high school in 10th and 11th grades, so they are a little more mature. I ca'nt really see this flying with middle school kids when you never know what is going to happen with them.

I think that until we've acutal been in a classroom and have tried these different ways of planning a unit, we won't know what really works. Some people are great on the fly while others need to have every last detailed planned. Until we know who we are as teachers, we can't say what method of planning will work best with us and our classroom.

The outline for **Mircoteaching #4** The Handout