Today is a special day because it is Sarah’s Birthday and I am so sad that I can’t be there to celebrate with her. Today was also an important day for me to because I was observed during my teaching period. Today I did a lesson on comparing and contrasting two different texts. I decided to do one story today and another one on Monday and then we will compare them. Today’s story was called Jacob’s Rescue and it is about a Jewish boy in the holocaust and his experiences living in the ghetto. Then on Monday we are going to compare the concept of being “trapped” to a Tupac poem. I changed up the room a little today and had the students sit in a semi-circle facing me and told them that we would be reading a lot today and this circle was going to provide the framework for them to be leaders in our class discussion. Of course Edwin acted out so I had to send him to the back of the room but I also lost another student today named Eric who was expelled for spitting at another student and then starting an argument with a teacher. Hopefully I can hold on too the rest of my class the next couple of weeks.
Thank goodness it is Friday because I am so exhausted and do not want to teach tomorrow. I do have mandatory study hall tonight but we also have classes all day tomorrow so it will still be exhausting. I will try to catch up a little this weekend in between studying and finishing making lesson plans. I did have a chance to fit a run in today which was nice and then I played beach volleyball for like 30 minutes. (Not going to lie I still have a pretty good serve!)
Tomorrow we are having a like thirty minute break to have a little fun at my school by having a Teacher Olympics. The event are hilarious: two people will race to see who can grade the fastest and most accurately, two people will race to alphabetize a set of papers, a poster making competition, a catwalk competition to demonstrate different teacher facial expressions and body gestures, and also a teacher stare-off! It should be pretty fun. I am competing in the poster competition and one other but I can’t remember what they signed me up for. I will let you know if the 8th grade teachers win. Also my school had special t-shirts made for with Patrick Henry on them and a cool logo so we can wear those tomorrow with jeans instead of business professional! Yay!
Anyways Lala wrote me an email and it made my day. I love to hear encouraging words from yall and want you to catch me up on what you are doing in your lives since I never have time to call anyone! Hope everyone has a great weekend.
Much Love,
Molly
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