Happy Spring Break!
I have 2 weeks off in honor of Spring (can't say "Easter" at a public school).
In honor of Spring Break, it will be snowing tomorrow through Sunday. Boo.
My new placement is going very well so far! I get along really well with my cooperating teacher (a female this time), and the kids are great. This past week the students finished up a Holocaust unit, based on Elie Wiesel's Night. Very interesting discussions in all the classes!
My cooperating teacher and I are going to be doing something new this year. All the juniors took the English Regents in January, so we have split each of the classes into 3 groups. Those in Group A are the students who failed the Regents, Group B is students who passed, and Group C is students who got a 95 or higher. I have been working with Group A this past week, helping them revise and type one of their Regents essays. Group B is going to be doing literature circles, which I am definitely looking forward to! Lit. circles seem like they're becoming all the rage in education, so I'm excited to have a long term experience with that. The students in Group C are going to be working on an independent study with a novel of their choice (from a list, haha).
This is a really unique opportunity for me & I'm excited to see how it goes! I will be at this school until May 25th.
In non-academic news, this past weekend I went out to Michigan with a load of personal belongings & started moving into the apartment where Doug & I will be living! We're very excited - it is really cute!! It's the second story of this house in Plymouth:
The bottom floor is a massage business, which is nice because we won't have to worry about noisy neighbors, since they'll never be there when we're home.
I'm off to enjoy my spring break some more! :)
I have 2 weeks off in honor of Spring (can't say "Easter" at a public school).
In honor of Spring Break, it will be snowing tomorrow through Sunday. Boo.
My new placement is going very well so far! I get along really well with my cooperating teacher (a female this time), and the kids are great. This past week the students finished up a Holocaust unit, based on Elie Wiesel's Night. Very interesting discussions in all the classes!
My cooperating teacher and I are going to be doing something new this year. All the juniors took the English Regents in January, so we have split each of the classes into 3 groups. Those in Group A are the students who failed the Regents, Group B is students who passed, and Group C is students who got a 95 or higher. I have been working with Group A this past week, helping them revise and type one of their Regents essays. Group B is going to be doing literature circles, which I am definitely looking forward to! Lit. circles seem like they're becoming all the rage in education, so I'm excited to have a long term experience with that. The students in Group C are going to be working on an independent study with a novel of their choice (from a list, haha).
This is a really unique opportunity for me & I'm excited to see how it goes! I will be at this school until May 25th.
In non-academic news, this past weekend I went out to Michigan with a load of personal belongings & started moving into the apartment where Doug & I will be living! We're very excited - it is really cute!! It's the second story of this house in Plymouth:
The bottom floor is a massage business, which is nice because we won't have to worry about noisy neighbors, since they'll never be there when we're home.
I'm off to enjoy my spring break some more! :)
posted by Rachel at
2:03 PM
2 Comments:
ohmigosh...a massage business!!! you need to work out some kind of deal! (unless, of course, it's a "massage business" in which case you & doug need to move immediately). ; ) (the house looks super cute).
glad you're enjoying life next door! we should do dinner sometime. you, lyx, andy, mike & me...we can order pizza from ralph's or something! and anytime you want you can stop over for an afterschool snack! =)
The house looks so cute! You'll love living together. Do you have any theme for decorating?
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