For a white day, it wasn't a bad day. I pretty much planned it so that my white Wednesday would be more facilitating than instruction just due to the fact that its a brutal day. Well, I wish I could say I planned it all out, but it just sort of happened that way. Its not a bad way to go though, so maybe I'll try to plan this type of day on white Wednesdays from now on.
Today, I first class was a repeat of yesterday where we talked about credible sources, and they did a really good job with it. This class can get a little wild, but today they were on target. In my other classes, I gave my seniors a topic and they had to find 2 sources on that topic. They then had to use the information we discussed yesterday (which I refreshed their memory with via a handout) to prove that the sources they found were credible sources. I gave them only 30 minutes to do this so they couldn't dilly or dally. After this was completed, I had them do an activity I have my seniors do every year: they wrote a letter to themselves. This letter was to be about their goals for this year, any apprehensions they have or expectations for their last year of high school. They will receive these letters the week of graduation. It's always very enjoyable to see them open these letters and see how they have grown up in the past few months. I think this year the overwhelming majority of them took it pretty seriously.
I graded most of the night after practice, and at 10:40 I'm stopping my work for the day. Man, this was a long day. I'll leave with a funny story that happened in my last period class. This class is a lot of fun, and they make the end of the day not so bad, especially on white days. They have taken to given the color of the day and the actual day names, such as Black Friday. Today, they deemed as White Girl Wednesday. Before the bell rang to start class, they had a debate over the name because a few students said it was also hump day. One of my students decided a truce was in order, and decided to call it Hump a White Girl Wednesday. Well, I reigned it all back in and got everything under control. Control and peace remained until I put the topics on the board they could choose from to do their credible sources activity on. One topic was the raising of minimum wage while the other topic was "Should spanking be outlawed". It took about 2 seconds for one student to mention the appropriateness of said topic on hump day. Yes, these are my students.
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