This semester, I will have a Transition English 10 class, an Honors English 10 class, and an English 11 class, which may or may not be an inclusion classroom. I am planning on implementing my Social Justice Project Plan in both of my 10th grade classes, but I haven't decided whether or not to try it with my 11th grade class, mainly because of the stress of the SOL test that will be given about a third of the way through the semester. I may begin it after the test because then I'll have some idea of the revisions I'll need to make, and the stress of the test will be over. Hopefully. Assuming the results are good.
I would have liked to have written an entry prior to this, detailing some of my issues with completing my project, but I had forgotten that this blog is under a different email and password than my other blog. Now that I've remembered, perhaps I can be a bit more regular.
The experience at GMU was incredibly inspiring and empowering, giving me all sorts of things to think about. For one thing, it reminded me how much I enjoy reading professional journal articles, and it has caused me to purchase the following
- Talking Race in the Classroom
- Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry
- Handling the Truth: On the Writing of Memoir
- Stirring Up Justice: Writing and Reading to Change the World
- Reading, Writing, and Rising Up: Teaching About Social Justice and the Power of the Written Word
The book about memoir isn't exactly for teaching purposes, but if I want to participate in writing with my students, this may be helpful to me. And I know that I should write in order to authentically talk to and with them about writing.
So now, my job is to read the books I've bought, and to add details to my implementation plan, so that I'm prepared for the beginning of the semester, before all the housekeeping tasks begin to mount up.
Am I ready? Sure I am! After all, I'm a teacher, and we are used to doing impossible things. Sometimes even six impossible things before breakfast.
So now, my job is to read the books I've bought, and to add details to my implementation plan, so that I'm prepared for the beginning of the semester, before all the housekeeping tasks begin to mount up.
Am I ready? Sure I am! After all, I'm a teacher, and we are used to doing impossible things. Sometimes even six impossible things before breakfast.
