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Monday, January 25, 2010

Student Teaching

Woah, an update!

So I started officially student teaching today, well not "officially" because I haven't started teaching yet. Today I just sat there observing different teachers. My cooperating teacher is teaching 6 classes this semester, 2 Junior US History classes, 2 Senior 20th Century classes, and 2 Senior Advanced European Studies classes.

It went pretty well, the classes were relaxed and laid back, so I think my style of teaching will mesh well with my cooperating teacher's.

I don't have much else to say, there will be more in the future. But I'm pretty excited about what's coming up in the year.

Monday, November 23, 2009

My weekend:

Out of my five classes this semester, each class decided they wanted to have a major project due before Thanksgiving. Lucky for me, my wednesday class got cancelled, so therefore all five of these projects are due either Monday or Tuesday.

Project 1: Drawing Class

Photocopy a $5 bill, and work on "gridding" and duplicate the portrait of a president (about 1" by 2") onto a 18" by 24" piece of paper.

Completed Saturday night.

Project 2: Clay Studio

Finish glazing all the clay pieces you've already made by Tuesday. I had to glaze my massive pitcher thing, 8 cups, 7 bowls, and a few other small pieces.

Worked on that Thursday afternoon, Friday morning, and finally completed it Saturday afternoon.

Project 3: Crime and Punishment in European History

Using the website OldBaileyOnline.org research two months of British justice between 1670 and 1913 and compare the cases, verdicts, and punishments of those two months. also, explain how those two months can also explain the changing social trends of the times, the changing outlook towards crime and criminals, and how England fits in with the changing trends of Europe in criminology. Should be 6 pages long.

Completed Saturday Afternoon/evening/night

Project 4: Business Ethics

Write an argumentative essay on whether or not you agree with the Doctrine of Strict Liability in businesses. Make it a logical argument and make your paper controversial so that someone can easily disagree with it (what!? umm, ok I guess) Should be 5 pages long.

Completed Sunday night

Project 5: American Sports History

Read the book , "Darwin's Athletes" and explain the author's thesis and whether or not you agree with it. Should be 8 pages long.

Finished (and started) the book this morning (I skimmed)

Currently working on the paper. It's 11:22, and the paper is due by 1:00

Wish me luck. So yeah I completed all the assignments (almost) but that doesn't mean I did well on them.

Monday, October 26, 2009

They call it the Senior Plague

So flu-like symptoms are sweeping across the campus. It's not officially swine flu, or real flu, but anyone with "symptoms" are being sent home with pretty much no questions.

People around here are calling it the Senior Plague since, it seems, most of the people sent home are from the senior class. Officially, since the Dean of the College told me, last wednesday health services sent home 16 people, thursday 18. Those are the only "official" numbers I've heard. But I know that more kids were sent home before Wednesday, and even more have been sent home this weekend.

Apparently, Health Services has a 3 hour wait to been seen today. The student body is only 2,000 kids, so that a big deal.

At our last Red Key meeting we were trying to figure out where everyone was. It was like: Where's Foley? sick. Frechette? sick. Hooper? sick. Stinky? sick. Pokey? sick. Corcoran? sick. Hurley? sick. Hughes? sick. Meyer? sick. (There are only 26 of us).

Why is it that my senior years come with such problems? Senior Year of College: the Senior Plague. Senior Year of High School: The MC Genocide of 2005. 8th Grade: we typically only have 6 teachers, during that year we somehow went through 22.