Sydney_CO2

For my second class observation, I got the pleasure of sitting in Wayne's Reading class. I sat in on a Monday class, so they had homework due over the weekend. At the beginning of class, Wayne handed back the student's homework. Their homework was to read anything they want for 90 minutes outside of class. Then Sunday, at noon, the must send an email (in proper email form, which they went over for another class lesson earlier) with at least 2 unknown vocab words, the part of speech, the definition in their own words, and correctly use them in a sentence. Then during the next class period he asks one or two students to do a "vocabulary presentation" on two of the vocab words, then the following class they will have a quiz on some of those words. A few interesting things that I noticed while I was observing Wayne's class was that everyone was very excited about being in his class. He is a great instructor with a lot of experience. I wish I had a teacher that was as passionate about reading and literature as Wayne. Another interesting thing I noticed in his class is that every time he gave the class a time limit for an activity, everyone in the class took out either their phones or their watches and set a timer. I have never had that happen in one of my classes.