My First Field Trip

After weeks of work and pleading, our efforts finally paid off to take our remedial English students on a field trip to see The Hunger Games movie which we had just finished reading in class. The book was used to teach reading comprehension, vocabulary, and literature appreciation. It was the first book many of our students read cover to cover, and our biggest struggle was keeping them from ruining the end of the book for those whose reading pace was slower than theirs. The students completed large projects to wrap up the unit, and their reward for completing two C or better projects was the movie. All but two students from both classes completed the assignment, a record for this class.

We took a bus from the school to the theater, and the concession stand was opened early just for us because we had a special 9:00am opening day showing of the film for just our students. They sat scattered around the whole theater and constantly critiqued the movie's variances from the book. In the end, the student's loved our outing and their 3 hours away from school on a Friday, and in memory, we decided to take a group photo. After we took several shots of the students, one yelled out, "The student teachers, get the student teachers in the picture!" which was followed by a chorus of "yeah" and "get in here!"

My co-student teacher and I joined with huge smiles. This class has become so important to us, and for them to make us feel included in their group was really touching. It was the highlight of my week.