For any of you who have checked in and found me wanting for a while, I'm back. Last year ended with me having my gall bladder removed the last week of school and then summer school started the following week.
I had a good group for summer school...high school students so a bit different from what I usually do. We used the book Hatchet by Gary Paulsen as out main reading text. We had regular quizzes and focused on vocabulary and writing. We Worked on Topic development in "coming to America" and I had the students work in writer's notebooks almost everyday. Not assigned writing but sort of. Each Monday the students would spend about ten minutes coming up with a list of possible topics..."things that bug me..." ; "my favorite places.." "Problems in the world." and then each day they could write about a new topic or continue with a topic they had already started. During the last two weeks I asked them to pick one topic to re-write edit and type up. I enjoyed learning about one boy's joining a salsa dance club and another student explaining how Korea united during the world cup to support the Korean team.
The students said at the end of the summer that they enjoyed the book more than the video! Yay!
The students said at the end of the summer that they enjoyed the book more than the video! Yay!
last week we had the ELL meeting and this upcoming week starts the in-service teacher days. O and my work schedule has gotten longer ...from a .4 to a .6 contract if we have a contract. It's contract renegotiation time between the union and the district so I'm still waiting.
