Monthly Archives: September, 2009
Proud and Pleased: My Secret Life of Bees Unit
I think I may have figured out how to make my documents available to you all here, so I thought I’d write a quick post about a unit I just finished with my ninth graders that went really well. This year, our ninth graders read a new summer reading book, Sue Monk Kidd’s The Secret …
Pacing Myself
I don’t know when I’ve ever been so glad that September is almost over! I think it’s partly due to my added responsibilities this year, and partly due to my close involvement with the college admission process this year–I’m helping our seniors work on their essays– but for whatever reason, this is one of the …
One of Those Moms
It’s taken awhile, but this school year, I feel I have finally become one of those moms. You know, the kind who have color-coded Outlook calendars at work and a color-coded wall calendar at home and still are sometimes late but also seem to be everywhere at once. The kind of mom who goes to …
Click Click Click…..
Dean Dad wrote a post recently about the week before school starts, comparing it to the sound a roller coaster makes when it is rising to the top of the first hill, right before you start the first exhilarating rush. I read it at the time and thought it was incredibly apt, and now I …
Traveling Circus and Medicine Show
The first confirmation that this show would be unlike anything we’d ever seen was when we arrived to our seats about 25 minutes early, looked down at the stage, and saw Adam Duritz and a guy with a guitar, doing a lovely acoustic cover of The Ghost in You while people shuffled around and found …
Second Grade
This year, they woke up early by themselves. This year, they didn’t need anyone to hold their hands while they skipped toward the school. This year, they greeted old friends–from when they were little kids, you know. This year, they were a little embarrassed that I was taking so many pictures. This year, their backpacks …
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