Jennifer - TP 11- 10/8/10

For my filmed lesson I decided to try out a new lesson on Halloween (specifically on Edgar Allen Poe). I found a narrated version of The Tell Tale Heart on youtube that we watched; and I also made sure to have a print out of the short story for everyone after the film. My tutoring partner Woon Jee was willing to be a part of the activity and for the most part she did really well. I think she was a little distracted by the other students and for a while she kept saying she didn’t understand the story (which she really did but she was trying to read too much into it). I thought it was interesting that no one thought that the story was scary; they just found the characters really strange. We ended the lesson with a group discussion on scary stories that students shared from their own culture.