Fieldwork and Interview Results

I went to my interview and field work today at Blacksburg High.  I worked with Katherine Lynde, the English department chair there.  The day went well, and was very hectic.  It was what they call "club day", where organizations meet during school and students get to "shop" for which clubs they may be interested in for the following year.  I first sat in on part of Ms. Lynde's class, and then the "Black Awareness Club" met in her room.  The students were overall very rowdy and inattentive, which she afterwards apologized for.  The first "club day" is always hectic, she told me.  The next class was a "college bound" class in which she mainly handed out scholarship applications and had the students take down notes on different parts of speech.  I then stayed for her lunch period in which I asked her a few questions.  I did not end up really sticking to my interview questions, because Ms. Lynde was very outgoing and sort of went on her own tangents.  It was an overall successful day and I received a lot of advice and background information about my community and teaching in general.