Today was about as long a day as I have had so far. White no prep day, followed by soccer practice, and then back to school night. It was a very interesting day.
My first class did the marathon writing, and they thoroughly enjoyed it. The topics weren't quite as good as the previous day, but the writing was good and many of the kids shared out. For the rest of my English 12 classes, we started to discuss how to find and determine the main idea of an article. I put the students in groups, then showed them pictures and they had to discuss and determine what the main idea of the picture was.Then, I used a strategy I was given at Hoosier Writing Project called annotating an author for them to find the main idea in a 2-page article. They did a phenomenal job with this! I was excited to see this strategy work, and I know I can adapt it to other readings and writings with a different focus. Thank you HWP!
I did the writing marathon for part of my Read 180 lab class, and the kids actually thoroughly enjoyed writing about the different topics, and they enjoyed sharing their writing more. There is definite work to be done with their writing, but they did enjoy writing about themselves and sharing their work.
Soccer practice was...wet. About 30 minutes in we were hit with a monsoon that completely soaked us to the bone. I think I could have jumped into a pool with my clothes on and been less wet. This wasn't a huge deal, except I had back to school night, and didn't really come prepared to have to change all my clothes. I had the distinct privilege of attending back to school night with no socks on and as the title of an Arnold Schwarzenegger/Alyssa Milano movie. Since I had the lowest number of parents in the department attend (I think I hit 3), I was able to get caught up on some much needed reading.
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