Today was a very long day, as white days tend to be, but it was not a bad day. My first period class was my red day discussion on expository writing and topic selection, and it went well. I did have one girl who wanted to do research and visit the forest moon of Endor, and there was no way I could deny her that! The rest of my classes were in the lab doing their research. I'm allowing them one class period for research in case they have trouble getting started and need my help. Almost all of my students were working hard and found some very valuable information. I did have one student who was being very finicky about where she wanted to visit and write about, so she kept changing her mind. I may have told her to look up Westeros, specifically the region of Winterfell. I also may have let her look at websites for 5 minutes before I told her it was fictional. I repeated many times that a wiki site is not an acceptable source of information, unless they actually go to the footnote listed. One student told me she never uses anything but Wikipedia and she sees the need for research pointless. I told her she would probably not do well in this class. She still has a hard time believing that a wiki site isn't acceptable doctrine for life. Yep, these are my students.
I've determined that days in the lab are dull and boring. My day goes much quicker when I am teaching all day. I believe these initial lab days are necessary, but I'm glad I won't be doing them very often.
We had a game tonight, so that is the main reason my day was long. Leaving home at 6:15 a.m. and returning at 10:30 p.m. just makes me tired. We won 5-0 and played fairly well though, so that always makes the ending to a long day better. I'm sure I'll sleep better tonight than I did after Tuesday's draw.
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