Sorry that I never the posted the pictures I promised last time from girls trip. I tried a couple times, but couldn't get it to work on my computer. I'll have to spend some time reading through the instruction manual (I hate doing that), and try again.
Sometimes I feel like teaching is a wonderfully rewarding job, I am on top of things and doing well as a teacher, and that I have everything under control. Then there are days like today...
We're getting ready to read The Diary of Anne Frank, so my students have been researching different aspects of the Holocaust. It's really interesting to study, and I enjoy seeing them go through shock, questions, and outrage as they learn for themselves what it was about. Still, it is draining. The students have been doing some neat things that are out of the ordinary--things like researching in the computer lab, making Power Point presentations or posters of their research to share with the class, presenting about their topics, creating butterflies to hang in the classroom based on a poem written by a Jewish child in the Holocaust. These are the ways I enjoy teaching and learning more than just reading a chapter and answering questions. The problem is that it takes more time to grade and is hard to send to students in ISS and Skills classes. I have a list of students I need to send work to by 3:00 today, including some who were in my class for the assignment but didn't turn in it or complete it. And 3-week progress reports need to go out, and I'm very behind on grading. This may be a late Friday for me.
