Journal #4 (12/7/09)

The last few chapters of the book discusses what Rebekah Nathan learned by becoming a student and how she applies what she learned to her future lesson plan. While reading these chapters us a readers learned something about Rebekah a well and about how students progress throughout their days at school. Which leads to the most important thing that we learned as a readers, which is the effect of time management. Time management plays a big role in a students life and helps a student manage his or her stress as well. We also found it interesting that she found that the daily planner didn't play a big role in time management; that it was a students schedule, the taming of the professor, and limiting the workload.

Another thing that was thought was interesting is that she didn't add the comments from her piers and from her students till the very end about what they thought of her field work. We found that this could have been essential information to know at the beginning of the book because it would have given more personal background about herself. We wonder if she questioned it because it would direct the book on her experience before or get the reader in the wrong mindset prior to reading the book.

Since some of our questions weren't asked during the book we turned to outside sources which helped us answer our questions. Books like Binge and Generation X aided to our better understanding of what people found college to be like. We found it easier to relate to those books as well because they are more of what college is like. They went in depth about parties and sexual stereotypes that matched more with the college atmosphere that we are affiliated with.