"Every Day is a Winding Road"

As I make the last final turns on the road to becoming an English teacher I realize that I'm always thinking about new lessons and units that I should plan. I'm also always applying the things that I do to my future classroom. For example, I was watching "Edward Scissorhands" and started thinking about how cool it would be to watch that after reading Frankenstein, not only thinking about similarities/differences between the novel and the movie, but actually reading the film. "Donnie Darko" would work great if I were teaching Freudian psychology (which sounds really exciting! but not practical for a high school classroom).  I'm now coming up with ideas and activities on how I could incorporate movies, t.v. shows, video games (yes, video games) into the classroom. I was working on a reading assignment for class and decided that I should plan a real life issues unit because that would be a unit that a lot of high school students need (the assigned book I was reading had nothing to do with the idea of this unit).

Along the same lines of applying everyday life to pedagogy, as I make the last final turns on the road to becoming an English teacher, I have to write a philosophy paper. What I am doing is researching Foucault's philosophy and applying that to the English classroom. I'll be thinking about how his philosophy (postmodern) will fit into critical theory when looking at Literature. I hope, too, that his philosophies can also be applied to more technical aspects of the classroom, but I'll just have to see what Foucault's belief systems were.

I hope to keep writing an update on this paper. I know- I usually get excited about my next paper, or writing project that I think of, I hop on the blog and post, then I don't go through with the upkeep  (or the project). I really want to get into the habit of meta cognition - thinking about what I'm thinking about (and writing about for that matter). This topic is something that I'm committed to, and I have to write the paper for a class, so there is no going back. I hope that I can keep up with it; knowing that I'm not disappointing anyone does not really help with getting myself to post.