Day 140- “You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.” Zen in the Art of Writing

Even after a long break, I still hate white days. I had my blended class meet today, so this was a full day of teaching. This class didn't let the previous day's classes lack of knowledge show them up, and one girl asked if Kwanza was a 15-year old boy's birthday. It just felt normal. We had the discussion about Vietnam, and this class new slightly more than my other classes, but still left a lot to be desired. 

In my other 12b classes, we discussed the reading from chapter one, and I modeled how to do the character maps for them. I let them listen to chapter 2, and showed them how to update the character maps and start new ones on characters that they came across.

In creative writing, we had a free writing day. The students have a big project, their short stories, due soon, and I wanted to give them time to write and conference with me on them.