I have to teach poetry and literature while doing my Latihan Ikhtisas. With zero background in TEASL or BENL (Bachelor in English Language and Literature), I admit that I was struggling to get myself familiar with the poems and short stories. I start to read poems when I was at university for leisure reading, so I don’t feel the need and pressure to understand it accurately. I had never learned poems at secondary school (for English). So, it was a bit stressful for me to teach the students the literature part.
Some of the poems and literature that I have to teach are as follow.
For form 1
- News Break (poem)
- Sad I Ams (poem)
- King Arthur (graphic novel)
- Fair’s Fair (short story)
For form 4
- The Living Photograph (poem)
- The Charge of the Light Brigade (poem)
- Leaving (short story)
- Tanjong Rhu (short story)
I constructed quizzes using Quizziz and also worksheet that I used for class activity. Nothing much though. For the Quizziz and worksheet, they have to do it in pair or group. It depends on the situation. Sometimes I used the computer room if I wanted to give them a quiz using Quizziz. It is an element of gamification and active learning that I tried to incorporate in my class.
Well, at least even though I am not trained in TEASL, but I just gave my best shot. That’s my motto. Sometimes I guess we have to be impostor. A good one to succeed in whatever thing that we do. In this case, to make sure that I could deliver well my lesson to the students, I become an English teacher impostor. 😀