August 2011
2 posts
Week 8: end of summer school program!
Well, well, well. Week 8, we meet at last. What’s that? You thought I would succumb to some sort of teen-induced coma before the end of the summer? Negative, ghost rider. Eight weeks of teaching 8:30-5:30 (let’s be real, 7:00pm) and I not only survived, but I also maintained sanity despite inundations with teenie pop, “that’s what she said” jokes and a slowly...
I'm learnin' for burnin'? Late summer delirium..
Week 7!
My sophomores worked on grammatical comparisons & my 8th graders started The Hound of Baskervilles, a Sherlock Holmes detective story. It was a week of extra essays, progress reports, independent work packets and candy bribes (I mean, are you even surprised at this point? The candy of choice this week were mini chocolate bars & gummy bears).
Sophomores
This was our second to...
