I was pleased with the start of the lesson and the students responded well to this. I was particularly pleased with the noise level and I feel as if I aided this by being consistent. For the starter I should have given the students that had finished the task a thinking task.
I was pleased with the pace of the lesson as this was something that I was focusing on. I kept the tasks short to keep the students engaged. Although the tasks worked well they might have worked even better if the students had been given a summary of the story.
Even though the students are in top set they still need to be told when to write notes down and this is something I have learnt from experience. When questioning the students I should have asked why, and the students would have been able to answer this if they'd had a plot summary.
At one point the room went silent whilst they girls were reading and I had to encourage them to start their paired discussion. At this point I should have reminded them of the question. I need to think carefully about the seating plan because two of the students were completely isolated during the discussion period.
I should have clarified what a theme is for task four. The plenary worked very well but I should have verbally brought it together. I will practise this in a lesson I am teaching this afternoon.
