In English 12, my numbers finally rose back to near normal as ECA testing for the re-testers was winding down. Due to the many absences the this week for testing, we spend the class reviewing and catching up on the last four chapters and updating character maps. I also handed out the papers for their project for this book and discussed what was expected of them for it. They will have a couple work days in class, but I wanted to give it to them before hand so they could start working on it now since we are being blessed with mini laptops for our work days.
In creative writing, I had my last observation of the year. I knew it was coming as everyone else in my department had already been observed, and I had a feeling it was coming during creative writing as rumor has it people want to see what I do in there. I pulled out my marathon writing lesson which has the beauty of being a totally different animal every time I do it. I had a couple prompts preloaded, but the students came up with the rest. They had some very thought provoking prompts, others that were very applicable for this time in their lives (How do you feel about high school coming to an end?), and seemed to enjoy the ones I had chosen as well. I showed my age, and the age of my evaluator, by putting the word "wonderwall" as a prompt and being the only two people in the room who knew the song. The students were brilliant today, sharing out with each other what they wrote, not being afraid to share or open up, and some of them wrote more than they had all year. I was very excited with how they did, not because of the evaluator, but because the wrote for over an hour and they loved it! Days like today, well, they give me the hope to carry on.
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