Well let me tell ya. It has been one CRAZY year, what with cancer and my first NCTE and blizzards and tornadoes and OH YEAH I STILL GOT THE YEARBOOK DISTRIBUTED ON TIME WOT WOT!!
Also, another reason I am amazing? I got my checklist turned in at 9 AM this morning - BOOYAH. I packed up my room VERY carefully, separately re-filing materials for language arts and journalism so that the new hire (hopefully! fingers crossed!!) will have those all together and I can just take my stuff and get started right at the start of the year without having to do the sorting THEN.
Fortunately I had one of the janitors unlock my room so that I could put away some shelves, because I had a couple of parents come by to pick up a copy of the yearbook. *facepalm*
I've also been updating my unit plans over at the UbD Educators Wiki. I'm feeling kind of uncertain and nervous about it, because technically I don't know that I'll be teaching sophomore English next year. I'll be kind of frustrated if I've put all that work into that particular course and I wind up with freshmen.
Not that I have anything against freshmen, or against freshman English; I think I even favor their required content a bit. The whole not-having-to-teach-Caesar is pretty awesome.
And the process of thinking through these units is just as helpful as the end result. Heck, maybe I should ask for a copy of the scope and sequence for the other grades once I've finished my unit planning for English II and work on unit plans for the others!
I think mostly I just don't enjoy feeling adrift. I very purposefully did NOT include Journalism on my list of courses-I-am-willing-to-teach. It would be nice to KNOW what courses I will be teaching next year. Especially because if they DO stick me with Journalism again, I'll be a little off my game because I didn't set up yearbook camp over the summer... though I'm in contact with most of the students on Facebook so I bet I could get things in order pretty quickly.
The Hunk has reserved rooms in New Orleans for the ALA convention. I'm pretty stoked. ^.^ In the meantime, we've got a few weeks to relax, do some housework, and ... well, relax some more!
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2 comments:
Woohoo!!! Congrats to you on your yearbook success.
Today was our last day, but yesterday was the last student day AND graduation, and my daughter graduated, and I volunteered to be a chaperone at the senior all-night party. So, I totally agree with the taking a week off to recuperate idea. I was at the school (except for a quick trip home with the lovely daughter to grab both of our robes and some dinner) from 8 AM Thursday morning until 1 PM Friday afternoon.
Being both faculty and a parent during graduation was stressful, and I had to sit behind my daughter as she gave one of the two commencement speeches, so that was a little of a bummer, too.
Have a great summer. Take care of yourself.
Oh, MAN, Denee... well, congratulations to you and your daughter, especially, but yeah. I'd've been kinda ticked at not getting a good seat for her speech. :(
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