Day 3- "Thank you sir. May I have another?"- Animal House

White Wednesdays SUCK! On our white days (we have 3 days, red, white and black) I do not have a prep, so I teach all day with a glorious 30-minute lunch. On Wednesdays, we have professional development from 2:10-3:00, so on white Wednesdays I pretty much go non-stop all day long. Thankfully soccer hasn't started yet, or I wouldn't have had a break until after 5:00, which would have made for a lovely 10-hour working with students. For those of you have never tried this, I encourage you to do so. While it may be enjoyable at times, it is also wickedly exhausting. I wasn't able to write a couple very important emails tonight until after 8:00 pm due to demand of this day. White Wednesdays will only occur once every three weeks, so I've got that going for me.

Despite my grueling day, the time passed very quickly. I had a little hitch in my block 2 English 12 class where I counted out 28 cards I had cut in half to randomly assign partners, not thinking that 28 cards makes 64 half-cards to pass out. I quickly had to match 28 halves together to form 28 matches, then redistribute the cards. I was able to overcome my gaffe, and the students start a partner interview biography today. The lesson went fairly well, and my students are again writing from the beginning of the year. They will revise and edit these in our next class, which wont' meet for two days. I also had the experience of teaching my block 1 class the same lesson I taught all my other classes yesterday, so that was nice start to my day. I was able to mentally switch gears to next classes, which was a new lesson since I saw all of them yesterday. 

I'm a little frustrated with my Read 180 class. Well, not so much the class, but the technicians in the district who have yet to enroll my students in the course. This means until they do so, I'm supplementing material, which is fancy teacher talk for making it up as we go.

Tomorrow should be an easier day as I am teaching material I taught today, have iPass period, and my beautiful, angelic, and lovely prep period! The day may feel as long though as I have a 6:30 coaches meeting to attend, and then I am going to the Chelsea-Inter Milan game at Lucas Oil Stadium. This will be the experience of a lifetime for me as I have never seen soccer played live at this level, and any weariness I feel on Friday will be met with a smile I will still be wearing from seeing two professional European teams do battle on a perfect pitch while I am surrounded by family, friends, and former players.