update

sans wisdom teeth

What the theme?

I think I'm going to start playing this game for the next few fridays. It's called, Spot the theme. I'll give you all the music played between classes and you have to guess what the theme of the day was. For today's, I bet you can't

In order of being played:

Michael Jackson - The Way You Make Me Feel
The Beatles - Here Comes the Sun
The Beastie Boys - Intergalactic Planetary
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Gold Lion
Bon Iver - Skinny Love
Female cover of TI's Whatever You Like
Eminem - Lose Yourself
Smashing Pumpkins - 1979
Weezer - Perfect Situation
MGMT - Kids

Any ideas? probably not.

Awesome

Found out my results today of the Comps (Comprehensive Exams you need to pass in order to graduate) that I took over a month ago. I passed, suckahs!

Also, I had a video interview today with the grad program I applied to. I think it went really well, I'm supposed to find out in a week or so if I get to go on to the next part of the application (placement in a school)

til then

Wups

So the school recently came out with a Social Networking Policy concerning Facebook, Myspace, blogging, Twitter, Youtube, and other sites. (Don't know why youtube's there).

But it says that we aren't allowed to talk about the school or students or anything like that. So, I think I might be done blogging about my experience.

BUT, I just realized by blogging about the Social Networking Policy I'm going against the Social Networking Policy, maybe

Impressive

Today was pretty good. I taught first period, the same lesson I taught yesterday on Ellis Island. It went really well I thought, my college supervisor came in to observe me so hopefully it went well. She hasn't told me yet how it went but I think it was good.

Also today, my cooperating teacher told my college supervisor that I had no need for Student Teaching and that I was ready to enter the classroom and really start teaching now. She said that was the biggest compliment any of the Saint A's student teachers have ever recieved. Pretty impressive, eh?

Beyond that, today was uneventful, didn't get electrocuted so that's a good sign.

Poorness*

Today's lesson went really well. I kind of ran out of time, but that's a good thing because it shows you prepared more than enough material. We started by learning about Ellis Island, then the citizenship and naturalization process. Next I gave them a citizenship application to look at, there were questions like "have you ever been affliated with Nazis or Communists" "have you ever committed a crime against the government" and so on. We talked about how the application is asking them to lie pretty much. Who would really check off yes, because that would most likely mean you won't get citizenship. weird.

Next I gave them a set of the 100 most frequently asked questions for people trying to be citizens about US History and Government to see how many they could answer. We made a game out of it, you need to answer at least 75 correct to gain citizenship in the classroom. They really got into it, it was fun. Some people didn't know who the governor from NH, the senators from NH, or the vice president were. A couple people said the pilgrims came over on the Santa Maria. But overall I was pretty impressed by them, they got a lot of the hard ones right.


*right, "poorness", yesterday I asked my class why people came to America or why they left their home country. They had a bunch of answers on the board, but I was looking specifically for "to escape poverty." They weren't getting it, so I was like "well it's the opposite of one you already have up there 'wealth and oppurtunity'" one kid raised his hand and said, "to escape being poor" "well what is that called, being poor?" "poor ....... ness?" and then that was the running joke from the rest of the class. I told them that if it was a question on a test, poorness would be an acceptable response


and i electrocuted myself today ... fun.

Boring

So yesterday at school was pretty uneventful, it was my first day back in 2 weeks. it was kind of a good feeling because some of the students where like, "oh, thank God you're back" but it could have been just jokes.

I taught 2 more lessons yesterday to kick off my Immigration and Cities Unit. Today we get to learn all about Ellis Island and Citizenship.

Beyond that, school's boring. Today the seniors have a field trip to Boston so all the senior classes i normally observe and help out in aren't here. so my schedule today:

Period 1 - Free
Period 2 - Free
Period 3 - Free
Period 4 - Teaching
Period 5 - Free

pretty good day i think