A Week In Review

This weekend I am in the thick of writing tests and planning reviews and trying to find time to grade.

I had a really good day on Friday. During my public speaking class, we watched clips from A Few Good Men to illustrate ethos, pathos, nomos, and logos (Aristotle's persuasive appeals). Then, the students and I worked together to come up with a body of knowledge for the test I have now written.

I taught "A Modest Proposal" to my seventh period, and it was amazing. I was so enthusiastic in class that I was able to keep my students engaged for the period. It went much better than my other two classes.

Fourth period was already ahead of the other two classes, so we explored some "fake journalism" for the first half of the period. The rest of the class I let my students have an English study hall since almost one-fourth of my class was a school field trip and I had a few others missing. I was a little nervous about that but I didn't want to start anything new since next week is spring break. They got more than fifth period or seventh will get since next Friday is a half-day before break and I'll show a movie.

It really makes me happy to see that my students are seeing me as their teacher and respect me. A couple of them commented to me that they appreciate my organization. It makes me really feel good about the fact that I work so hard.