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Week Twenty-Halfway There!

Well here it is midterm week. School is half over; we have half way more to go. Midterm week has to be 1 of my favorite weeks of the year. I love it we don't have so much work to do,  but the students are working extra hard. Getting out at 11:30 everyday is also a nice benefit.
I also enjoy the fact that we're going to be moving into romanticism next term. This has to be 1 of my favorite units of all American literature. The row is really exciting because we're finally getting into literature that mean something. I mean the other literature did mean something but this is the actual real imaginary made up fiction literature like a Devil and Tom Walker.
I did like teaching the Revolutionary Period. This year that was a lot of fun and I think that I mix it up enough that I was interested it, and I was able to get the kids interested in it.
I want to get the kids involved in the Fireside Poets again this year by learning about them together. I want them to present the poems to the class so that we can all benefit from the learning experience. This will be a lead into Socratic Circles that we do later on this year.

Creative Writing will be starting a children's literature pretty soon. We have been invited to read the children's books to an elementary school

Week 19 The Long and Sad Road

This link it seems to be all about it administration. Bureaucracy  just won't seem to stop there's more and more stuff coming down the pipe and getting thrown in our direction. Everyone seems to want to micro management control every aspect of our teaching not really understanding that we ourselves are professionals and know what we're doing. Administration needs to do administrative things and they also need to protect us from from the things we don't need to worry about. That's just not happening. It seems that they want to control every aspect of our lives and they also want to criticize everything that we seem to be doing even though we know we're doing it right. We're demoralized. We're tired. We're  stressed, and this is not a good working environment don't like the fact that I come in to school every morning not really liking being there anymore.