Spooks and goblins and ghosts galore are quickly approaching the town of Leedey. Halloween is my favy fav holiday. I love the season it comes in, the colors, the smells, the fact that is has a HUGE association with chocolate candy, and the scariness of it all!! So in keeping with the Halloween mood, I've assigned a 3 paragraph Halloween essay to my 8th graders. After picking their own partner, they can pick any topic relating to Halloween. They must have two online sources and write the essay in pen or pencil, skipping lines. It's due Wednesday. We will work on them today and tomorrow. We will read them aloud to the class on All Hallow's Eve day.
And now, the continuation of my story. Dr. Kennedy suggested that if I write a paragraph each day that I blog, by the end of a school year, I might have written a novel.
"Oh great," I thought, as visions of a no-ball practiced whirred around in my 17 year old blonde head. "Oh well, just try to make the best of it. Things can always get worse!" I muttered as I hurredly joined the rest of my teammates, jumping rope and stretching as we got loose and warmed-up.
The "she" we were referring to was none other than the legendary Gina Allen, small school girls' basketball coach in western Oklahoma. She was the reason we all had a love/hate relationship with the game and a lot of times even, with her as our coach. She was, quite frankly, the best that ever coached the game of girls' basketball, and her demeanor, style of play, and coaching techniques are comparable to few, if any, then or now. My teammates and I all grew up watching her teams, our older sisters and cousins, dreaming of the one day when it would be our turn to take the court in our royal blue and white suits, representing her and our cherrished Leweyville. Basketball was all we knew in our small rural school, well, that and farming chores. Most all of the kids in Leweyville came from a farm home where hard work and harsh words were as common as dusty roads and waving wheat fields.
To be continued.......
Monday, October 29, 2012
Friday, October 26, 2012
Long Time No Blog!!
Gosh!! Not sure what happened as to why I haven't been blogging. It's been forever or so it seems!! I guess just busy with life and then thinking my students aren't reading my blog. Recently a complete stranger that I met at an educational conference told me she had read my blog!!! She gave me a few suggestions as to how to get the kids to read it and none the less, she has inspired me to start blogging consitantly again!! Shout out to Dr. Kennedy!! :)
The last 2 days in 8th English class:
We graded Vocab Wb Less. #12. There is no quiz for this lesson.
We did Tween Tribune which is an online website. By Monday, the students must have read 3 articles. On one, they comment like normal and submitt online. The 2nd one, they write a compare/contrast essay and submitt online. The 3rd article they must do a 3-2-1 on a piece of paper and hand in to me.
Today we read a Kelley Gallagher Article of the Week about over use with our cell phones. We did paired reading with the MAXX teaching theories. They had to do a 3-2-1 together and answer 2 questions at the end of the article. Due Mon.
I'm heeding Dr. Kennedy's advice. So here goes:
"Well, what kind of a mood do you think she's in? Scheesh, I hope it's a good one. I didn't get to eat lunch today because our class is on the last bell, and I stayed up too late talking to Bobby. I'm tired and I don't want to have a hard miserable practice!" Karen exclaimed as she frantically double knotted her blue laces on her white with blue swoosh Nike hi-top basketball shoes, all the while jerking her hair up into a messy pony tail bun.
"I'm telling ya, the jh made her mad!! That's what Krystal said. Ran the whole hour. I guess Michelle Youngblood kept dropping the ball in 3 man weave. Everyone was ready to choke Michelle by the time they ran their 3rd 5 in 1:10," Sheela explained, as she dabbed on a bit of deodorant and ran out the small baby blue door of our locker room.
To be continued.........
The last 2 days in 8th English class:
We graded Vocab Wb Less. #12. There is no quiz for this lesson.
We did Tween Tribune which is an online website. By Monday, the students must have read 3 articles. On one, they comment like normal and submitt online. The 2nd one, they write a compare/contrast essay and submitt online. The 3rd article they must do a 3-2-1 on a piece of paper and hand in to me.
Today we read a Kelley Gallagher Article of the Week about over use with our cell phones. We did paired reading with the MAXX teaching theories. They had to do a 3-2-1 together and answer 2 questions at the end of the article. Due Mon.
I'm heeding Dr. Kennedy's advice. So here goes:
"Well, what kind of a mood do you think she's in? Scheesh, I hope it's a good one. I didn't get to eat lunch today because our class is on the last bell, and I stayed up too late talking to Bobby. I'm tired and I don't want to have a hard miserable practice!" Karen exclaimed as she frantically double knotted her blue laces on her white with blue swoosh Nike hi-top basketball shoes, all the while jerking her hair up into a messy pony tail bun.
"I'm telling ya, the jh made her mad!! That's what Krystal said. Ran the whole hour. I guess Michelle Youngblood kept dropping the ball in 3 man weave. Everyone was ready to choke Michelle by the time they ran their 3rd 5 in 1:10," Sheela explained, as she dabbed on a bit of deodorant and ran out the small baby blue door of our locker room.
To be continued.........
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