Friday

Another day of not much to tell. Perhaps I should be giving more information about what I do with my days? I'll start that Monday, fresh.

Amy has her routine down pat; each hour has the same "schedule"

1. Daily News (for H1, this also includes Daily Announcements)
2. Bad jokes/puns
3. On with the show

This week, we had the added feature of splitting the students into 2 groups each hour - one worked on the book "A Long Way From Chicago" while the other worked on their papers on the reserved laptops. Then, 1/2 way through the hour, the groups switched. This way, students had an (near) equal time to work on their papers. Problem is, their motivation to work on these papers just isn't there. There are only a handful of students out of the ~120 that (a) want to work on their papers (b) take this assignment seriously and (c) are interested. Amy can't figure out what the disconnect is, and I certainly am still clueless.

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Having Prep-time 3rd hour is odd - it seems I have less time to do what I need to do; I feel pressured. Perhaps it is because lunch comes after 3rd hour; whereas prep at 6th hour just rolled into after school time. I need to work on making my goals for prep time a bit tighter.