Sorry for the month off (me). I don't think that the time saved by not blogging was necessarilly of equivalent value. In other words, it was a mistake to take time off. The blog as to-do list is useful, even when it's painful to look at.
As I mentioned, I have a student teacher now, which will free up a bit of time after a bit - though in the early stages there's a lot of tet-a-tet daily interaction that is needed. Teaching Jurassic Park for the first time requires a lot of basic maintenance - writing study guide questions and quiz questions, etc. I'm behind on grading study guides and just getting the quizzes out as I go. My goal within this unit is to work on writing skills, but I can't even get the pretests coded! My short term goals include making an interactive "catch-up" assignment to review the story so far, reviewing and revising their old paragraphs, writing a mid-term paragraph assignment, designing a post-JP research paper, and finding a system for evaluating writing to measure change. I have a day out on Thursday for tech stuff, so I can only plan some kind of activity tomorrow or Friday. Tomorrow is ideal. In order to run that, though, I'd need to have study guide questions and quiz questions ready to go and that means working through the periods today. OK. So get tomorrow's quiz and study guide done. Then - create a review activity for tomorrow. In the background - get caught up on study guides and paragraphs.
Break!
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