Tuesday is a day of excitement. While I am trying to focus on teaching today, I am wondering how my youngest is doing. All. Day. She is spending the day with a friend of a friend. She has never been there. Yikes. She is a sweet girl, but VERRRRRRY feisty. This could be a bit disastrous.
In other news, we continue to plod ahead with Poems. In order to inspire my students we wrote six word summaries. Then we performed them. 6th,7th, 8th graders all got into it. These students love to perform. You gotta love seeing them laugh and enjoy class, even if the six word summaries do not seem like much. I took away the intimidation from their writing and encouraged them to go with their gut. It was successful. I knew it might work- it had worked well in my other classes- but you never can predict these things completely.
In history news...
We are learning about the Caribbean and Central America and words that were used in a text (Circa 2003) that are no longer appropriate. Yikes. While trying to explain all of this, I find myself going back and relearning, multiple times. No easy task. Still, this is what we sign up for as teachers.
I am also teaching US History- I find I do enjoy this new task and there are definitely parts of history I find enjoyable. I am trying to both cover the material and welcome other dimensions as well. We are watching videos, looking at art, listening to music, creating discussion and writing about it. What else? If only I had a time machine....
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