During this observation, I noticed that the class was having a discussion after watching the “I have a Dream” speech by Martin Luther King, Jr., in which the students were to verbalize the observations they had made about the video and the teacher would add those observations to a web organizer. During the discussion, a student had said, “he was looking at the audience” to which the teacher replied, “we call that eye contact.” The students were readily using phrases such as tone of voice and body language to describe the way that Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered his speech. I will ensure a rich academic language in my classroom, by using word walls and journals to keep academic words with their
During this observation, I noticed that the class was having a discussion after watching the “I have a Dream” speech by Martin Luther King, Jr., in which the students were to verbalize the observations they had made about the video and the teacher would add those observations to a web organizer. During the discussion, a student had said, “he was looking at the audience” to which the teacher replied, “we call that eye contact.” The students were readily using phrases such as tone of voice and body language to describe the way that Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered his speech. I will ensure a rich academic language in my classroom, by using word walls and journals to keep academic words with their