Lazy Sunday

 Lazy Sunday?  Not if you are a teacher or a professional football player in the Fall.  For teachers, Sunday is the day we get ready for the week ahead,  and most Sundays are full of lesson planning, lesson fine-tuning, a bit of anxiety, and considerable excitement for the week ahead.  These feelings also apply to the month of September.  While half of us is sad summer is ending and we have to go back, the other half can’t wait to get in front of the classroom again and start over with a group of new faces.  There are so many mixed feelings about this whole time and then, just like that, we are back, cruising through September, enjoying getting back to those academic pursuits and routines. 

I teach Sophomore and Junior English, and one Senior Elective class Creative Media at a competitive, college-prep, all boys school.  While a high percentage of my students do not particularly love, or even like, reading and writing, I absolutely LOVE my job.  I really do.  I would also love to get paid as much as those professional football players I mentioned earlier, but let’s save that for another blog.  This blog is going to mainly be about life in the classroom and how to make reading and writing more appealing and relevant to my students.  I want my students to buy books on Amazon, not everything else that they sell.  Is there anything  that you can’t buy on Amazon these days?

Two new things I am excited about this year are:  1)  teaching a new Elective class where one of the objectives is to create and maintain a blog, and 2) having all of my students by an 8 pack of Notecards so that we can do some non-academic writing from time to time and write to express appreciation to a variety of people in our lives. 

So, I hope you follow and enjoy my blog as we navigate the waters through candy corn and apple pie, to candy canes and hot chocolate, to conversation hearts, jelly beans, Peeps *, and then dive into popsicle and watermelon season after a meaningful and productive year!  

*Note about Peeps:  I think I liked it better when we could only get them at Easter and not all throughout the year in the form of ghosts, snowmen, American flags, etc.!!!