Day 6:
Today I started my first "real" lesson plans with my 8th graders. We learned about the elements of a story by watching a flippin cool music video on flocabulary.com called Five Things. The 8th graders were not entirely impressed with the educational rap song, but they were amused nonetheless, even if they won't admit it, I KNOW they liked it! After that we analyzed Rainbow Fish story elements to prep them for the reading of "The Masque of the Red Death," by Edgar Allan Poe. I was truly surprised at how much my "mature" 8th graders loved Rainbow Fish. I didn't hear a peep while I was reading it. I count Day 6 a success with my 8th graders.
Today we finished the introductory assignment with the 7th graders, FINALLY!!! Next time, they will choose only 5 things to present about their partner and that way we won't spend two extra days on an assignment that should have taken one or two class periods at the most! I believe my 7th graders were as relieved as I was to get that over with.
The grading is really starting to pile up. Just barely got hooked up to the system and am stressed out because I have papers coming out the wahzoo! It always seems like I have so little time to accomplish so much! Wow this is getting stressful!
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