D-7: Seven?

Made it to the end of the week!

1st period students were definitely aware that today is Friday. It was really the first time I felt that I was involved in a problematic situation. Today was also a big day for me as I had sole responsibility for a lesson. What I wanted to do was read an article and model the thought process that goes into active reading. The kids were patient, but I could tell that it wasn't really working. The next period I read the whole story first and then focused on outlining. This worked better but was quite time consuming. I only covered about half of the document.

Next time I'll have the outline completed and model the first three paragraphs or so before assigning groups to complete the remaining paragraphs. This will work much better I'm sure.

Today is about decompression. I don't think I've recovered from last weekend. It was fun but I've just been beat all week and haven't gotten any catch-up sleep. Tomorrow will be paper day.

Since that's the case, I'll blog again tomorrow mid-afternoon, but not Sunday.