Day 39- "We've been fighting a long time. We are out numbered by machines. Working around the clock,without quit. Humans have a strength that cannot be measured. This is John Connor. If you are listening to this,you are the resistance."- Terminator Salvation

I have been making my white days easier recently. My first period class was, as always, a repeat of my classes yesterday. It actually was probably the best discussion of all my classes on the tablets vs textbooks article. This class is always an enigma as to how they will perform on any given day, but today they were a pleasant surprise. The rest of my senior classes were in the lab to do a writing assignment where they summarized the debate topics we discussed about the text vs tablet article. They had to mention 3 pros and 3 cons, and my goal was to see how they organized their writing. This will come into play later.

My Read 180 lab class had the privilege of taking an "assessment" on a reading about rats. This was assigned, and yes I do mean assigned, to our English classes by our professional development team. Not best practice, but choices are limited at this time. This was suggested to be bell work for most classes, yet in talking with a few teachers, this took their classes 20-30 minutes, and it took mine 40. Sometimes I feel the disconnect between non-classroom educators and classroom educators grows daily. Next week's cluster should, as always, be interesting.