Last English lesson

My last English lesson was quite short and sad. I enjoyed teaching my favourite grade eight class for one last time. I was very enthusiastic about this lesson, but it was obvious that I was overcome with emotion. I did a lesson on interpreting fonts in advertisements and how to interpret pie charts. This lesson focused on visual literacy, since it will form part of next year’s ANAS tests for the grade nines.

The lesson reached the outcomes since the learners were able to interpret the pie charts and they were able to gather information from the pie charts. Also, the learners were able to identify how different fonts can be used to persuade people into reading advertisements. Thus, even though the lesson was short, I reached my outcomes. 

I feel really relieved that I was able to finish all nine lessons in time. By the seventh week I was quite worried that things were not going to work out. Since this is the fifth English lesson I presented in one week, I felt really stressed at the beginning of this week. My English lessons gave me the most stress. That is probably why I postponed it all the time. The teacher also had to finish all her compulsory work before I could present all my lessons. I presented this lesson to the other grade eight class as well but it did not count.