nowhere man

Shit like this boggles my mind.

maybe i'm amazed

So today was a great day for me as a teacher. In my first period ELD class, my students gave group presentations, and were totally cute & awesome. They started their presentations all professional and, "Good morning class", and just did really fabulous jobs. Then in my second period Intervention class, we looked at a passage from Great Expectations to find character traits of Miss Havisham. I gave them background info on the story and characters, and they were totally into it. I have honestly never seen them more engaged or well-behaved. They wanted to read the book/watch the movie for extra credit, or watch the movie in class as a reward, and one girl (who is honestly my favorite student) goes, "Do you think they have this book in the library? I want to read it now". I wish I could just do stuff like this every day, instead of having to follow such a scripted program.

hard day's night

Can I really be done with PACT? Really? I can't even believe it. Here is a rough break-down of the assignment that basically took over my life for the past month:


**5 "tasks", that included...
-20 single-spaced pages of writing
-3-5 hours worth of lesson plans
-20 minutes of video (that took me about 2 hours to get onto the computer, edit, and save)
-scanned/assessed 3 student work samples, as well as the rubric
-scanned copies of the student assignments for the 3-5 hours of teaching time
-transferring ALL of this onto a website-like template, and linking it all up
-burning it all onto 2 CDs

God, I'm so glad it's over. I just want to turn in these CDs before I give in to the urge to break them.




And, on a completely different note....Seriously? Seriously! SERIOUSLY?!? Ahhhh. (I know that this doesn't make sense to anyone but me, but I am EXTREMELY irritated right now about something that has nothing to do with school, work, or me, really).

come together

God, I miss this show.




And Lauren, by the way.