Today was a busy day, but nothing really out of the ordinary. In my English classes, we discussed the first part of chapter 5 of Slaughter-House, and I showed these kids my epiphany I had on Friday with the stopped traffic and moving cars and how the universe was seen by humans and the Tralfamadorians. This seemed to help this class as well. They did a good job of contrasting the American and English soldiers, and then we saw Billy seep into a bit of madness at Cinderalla.
In my CW class, and for my observation, we did the marathon writing activity that I have done before. They kids came up with some great prompts, and some very thought provoking discussions took place. I tweeked it a little bit in that this time I had the students in groups of three so they could share out in groups, then with the whole class if they wanted to. It seemed to go well, and I think it was very productive. I have my post-conference in a couple days, so I'll see how it scored then.
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