Today was my white day, which at times feels like the 9th circle. Although they day is tiring, the time passes very quickly as I am literally constantly on the move. I do think today all my students were in league to see if they could drive me completely insane. If they were, well, they failed...mostly.
My first class went well as it was a redux of last Friday. The revision and editing in its basic form went well, and I believe they understand the idea and importance of revising. Or maybe it was just a cruel trick they were playing me.
In my other English 12 classes, I had netbooks brought in so my I could introduce Google docs and My Big Campus. We will utilize both very heavily this year, so I felt it more than necessary to spend a day going over Google docs, showing the students how to use and share documents, and getting them all set up and logged into My Big Campus. This was much easier planned and said than done. I wrote on the board all the information the students needed, I pointed it out, I referenced it, and even modeled how to go through each process on my SMART Board. I may as well have not done any of the before mentioned methods to assist them as I probably answered the same question of how to log in to their Google accounts maybe 200 times. Oh, these are the exact...same...accounts these students had last year. In fact, in my last class, while signing up for My Big Campus, one student said he didn't know what his school email address was after we had just spent 30 minutes going over their school Google accounts. I was starting to wonder if I was invisible. On top of this all, one student asked who Mark Twain was and said she had never heard of Huck Finn, even though she read the book last year in English 11. I told her to get out.
On a couple of positive notes, my students were in the system for READ 180 and were able to take the SRI test today. I also gave them a tour of the media center, introduced them to our media center specialist, and showed them how to check out a book. Today was also the first day of tryouts for soccer, and we are going to be good this year. For the first time ever, I truly believe I will have 21 guys who can get legit varsity time and make an impact, and our JV team has a chance to be the best we've ever had. This year looks promising and the future looks incredibly bright.
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