Welcome to my last and final blog post! It has been very fun building my final project this semester. I really enjoyed putting together all the final touches for the project on teaching Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart.” My partner and I worked very hard on this and are very proud with what we have created. My successes during this project was thinking of lesson ideas for the lesson plan. I thought we were successful in deciding what to put on the slides and used ample resources to explain the intelligences to the best of our ability. I discovered that there are a lot more things that I could include in my lesson plan. I included an initiation video which I think is very different from the other lesson plans that I have seen. This part of the slide contains a video from a childhood cartoon show. This includes a similar lesson addressed in the story so I thought it would be a good initial step to get their feet wet. It is a good start to getting them think about what the story will be about and or the lessons that the story will be here to teach. This is my second time creating a lesson plan and it definitely helps to have more practice for the future. I developed a scientific lesson plan for first graders last semester and this one is centered toward third grade English, so they are both very different.

One of the hardest parts of creating this lesson plan was figuring out how certain intelligences were going to be incorporated. We decided to focus on three intelligences for this project: Spatial, Interpersonal, and Interpersonal. Interpersonal and Interpersonal gave us a little bit of a challenge. We knew how they connected to the story, but it took us a few days to come up with a lesson that will help them understand the connection between the story and the intelligences. After much research we were able to come up with an activity that would relate to both intelligences.

Something that I have learned about during this project is that I can incorporate a morbid and more challenging reading for elementary school children. This is challenging because “The Tell-Tale Heart” is intended for a middle school or high school classroom. Edgar Allen Poe originally wrote this story to teach a lesson to his readers. He wrote this short story so his readers, regardless of their age, can determine the state of “madness” that the narrator was experiencing. A story like this can effectively explain some of Gardner’s multiple intelligences. I like that the children will be able to relate to these intelligences as some students will exhibit some intelligences over others. Hopefully, after a lesson plan like this one, children can determine which intelligence(s) they may or may not exhibit. In our lesson plan, we are able to teach the students, without repeating any of the same information, that they can brainstorm and think outside of the box. It would be my honor to get my future students to think more critically about a subject matter. I would be my honor to impact how a student learns about a challenging novel. I was faced with this conflict in high school and if it wasn’t for my wonderful English teacher who encouraged me to think critically then I would not be where I am today. My ability to analyze literature has changed overtime and I want to build the stepping-stones for my students so they will be able to accomplish the same things.