homeroom/1st period: 10B English 21 students
2nd period: free
3rd period: 10C English 18 students
4th period: 11A Teacher Academy 30 students
5th period: free
6th period: 10A English 22 students
7th period: 10C Reading 18 students
Sarah's parents just sent a ton of books and copies of Cricket/Spider magazine. So now we have a class set of The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, Sarah Plain and Tall, and Dear Mr. Henshaw (Beverly Cleary).
Since I'm teaching 3 sections of English, my focus is probably going to be on writing for the 2nd-4th quarters. I hope to drill some essay/descriptive writing and critical thinking into their brains.
My chai tea bag tonight said, "to know, read. to learn, write. to master, teach. " Sarah said, "oh good, so we're going to master English and Reading."
"Wellll, it's about time I got around to doing that!" I replied.
I remember taking German at Dartmouth that not only was I truly learning a foreign language for the first time (yeah, Espanol at good ol' Mack High doesn't count), but I was also learning English grammar for the first time. If I could go back and learn German with the knowledge I have now about grammar I think it would be a lot easier! It would be great with my students if I could scaffold onto their knowledge of Marshallese, but in order to do that I need to work on my own Marshallese first. Plus, Marshallese is mostly a spoken language. One of the only books written in Marshallese is the World Teach Language Manual that I have a copy of.
Speaking of books, here is a list of the ones I have read so far:
Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
Flowers for Algernon
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
First Year Teacher's Survival Kit
Teach like your Hair's on Fire
The Cay
The Giver by Lois Lowery
Sophie's World
Ruby Fruit Jungle
Franny and Zooey- Salinger
The Book of Laugher and Forgetting- Milan Kundera
Up the Down Staircase- Bel Kaufman
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