Reflective Essay 'Shooting An Elephant'

For one of my full lesson that I did during internship, I created a live lesson for FLVS. The lesson was based on one of the lesson that the honors students had to complete for the course. The live lesson learning goals were that that students would be able to: describe the organization of George Orwell’s essay “Shooting an Elephant;” describe the sentiments of George Orwell toward the British Empire; and use questioning to identify the historical context and theme of a text.

Through the live lesson, because it was not a face-to-face lesson, I needed to make sure that the students were engaging in the lesson. I was told students at the end of the lesson need to have read George Orwell’s essay “Shooting an Elephant” and complete a graphic organizer that will help students complete a quiz and prepare students for the next lesson.

The lesson consisted of several interactive slides that I created to help guide students through the lesson. To test student’s knowledge and understanding on the topics, I had students place stamps on the scale, which ranged from “I don’t know anything” to “I a an expert.” With students letting me know where they are on the scale I was able to determine how much more in depth I needed to go into the

I read the first essay, getting the lesson started. I model what was then expected of students in their groups to complete the lesson. I showed students that they were supposed to use highlighters on the paragraphs, color depending what group they were in, to find the examples for their graphic organizers. Students understood the tasks at hand before we began reading the other paragraphs of the essay. I asked for volunteers to read, using their microphones, to keep them actively engaged and to make sure it was the actual student on the other end, since I cannot see their