Redundancy

Not to put too fine a point on it, but I have to question the purpose of essentially handing in the same work TWICE.

I already have to fill out a weekly report sheet; why do I have to have another weekly journal? It's just going to be the same material.

This irks me. Severely.

GAAAH!

This completely sucks! I SUCK!

I am totally jumping all over the place for parts of
sentence and diagramming. I had to totally overhaul my
gameplan for tomorrow and the rest of the week.

*whimpers*

First Lesson

Well, it wasn't horrible. But I didn't exactly *like* it either. Straight grammar is never going to be a barn burner of a lesson for students, is it?!

 

I had some students I love already really make an effort to contribute, bless 'em. Somehow I wound up with a group of boys (did group work) who were chatting about anything but what I was doing in class. Guh.

 

One boy who I suspected would not bring in his homework - did not bring in his homework. Not a surprise. That kid is totally dialling it in. If he's still in this school by next semester I'd be shocked. Does he dislike it here that much? He should just tell his parents to stop wasting the tuition money and send him off to public. Of course, his parents' whole point may be that this institution may be the only place he's got a hope of doing well in because of the tight discipline. Well, it only works so far you know. Then the kid and the parents have to kick in.

 

Planning period now. Have to go on stage again in about thirty minutes. I hope this class is more lively than the first one. Need to make some adjustments - have kids do definition of subject and predicate first before underlining and circling them.

 

I think I am dreading my supervisor's visit this Thursday, though. Seriously, this grammar is B O R I N G.

Today is the Day

I take over my first two classes. Nervous. I worry
about my plans either having too little or too much
time. You just can't tell how fast the students are
going to go through this until...you start!

Well, I should know how good or how bad by 11:34
today!