I sat in Candace Warmka’s 9AM grammar class. Compared to my
first class observation, this one feels much simpler; for one, the work done in
class was all on PowerPoint slides rather than worksheets/textbook pages. She
starts class off with a bell ringer activity (a term I haven’t heard since
middle school) which was to identify the infinitives in a list of sentences.
After giving the students time to work on it, she goes over them and also
identifies other parts of the sentence such as the object, subject, and
predicate. Next, she introduces gerunds and does an activity which involves
completing sentences with gerunds. She then demonstrates the different usages
of gerunds, such as as a subject and as an object and afterwards challenges her
students to convert a list of infinitive sentences into gerund sentences. Candace’s
teaching method seems a little more advanced, but not that far up. Throughout
her lecture, she really goes in depth with all the sentences and how the
grammar rules fit into them. One thing I noticed was her speaking speed was a
little faster than Marilyn’s which could possibly result in difficulties in the
students understanding her. However, aside from that, I feel she does a good
job at teaching grammar rules.
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