Hi!I'm currently teaching Literature to Secondary 2 classes. The students are using When My Name was Keoko by Linda Sue Park. The text is a rather simple and therefore, it is used only in Term 1. As the school operates on an odd and even week time-tabling structure, the Sec 2 express classes have Literature for 2 periods per week (45 minutes for each period) while I meet the 2NA class for 1 period on odd weeks and 2 periods on even weeks. I was very impressed with the Express classes that I've been to as almost all of them have finished reading the book. The teacher gave them a Chapter Guide template that the students will have to complete as they read. And they completed that as well. However, the 2NA students are on the other extreme. This makes it more challenging to teach the 2NA class.
The Literature Department has prepared a set of resources (basically, worksheets) for the entire term. It is up to the teacher to decide which activities they would want to use for their class. And for the past two weeks, I've been tasked to teach them to write a paragraph using Point-Evidence-Explanation(incorporate Link in E?). Students do not have to sit for a Literature paper for the MYE and to make up for this, students are required to do a project on the text. They are given two choices; to do a picture book of the text (with rhyming texts and all) or to create a journal of one of the characters in the text.
I have not observed any other Literature lessons. But the Secondary 1 students are reading Roald Dahl's The Witches. The school does not offer Literature to the current Sec 3 batch due to lack of Lit teachers.
"The school does not offer Literature to the current Sec 3 batch due to lack of Lit teachers." - Gosh! How do you handle the difference btwn Express and NA?
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