Okay, I was feeling all guilt-ridden for not having posted anything in a month until I saw that I was not alone. . .heh, heh. Actually I have been a little busy and a lot Internet disabled. I think I am finally calm enough not to use any really profane remarks to and about Earthlink's tech support, but I still intend to blister the virtual paper the email will be on with my comments. I was without my Internet connection for almost a week because Earthlink never passed on my new telephone contact numbers to Hughesnet, the satellite company. When I finally FORCED a supervisor to give me the Hughesnet numbers and contacted the local installers in Mussel Shoals, the very nice guy I talked to said they'd been using the old number all week trying to reach me; he then told me how to reset the internal surge protector on the modem and get back online. It took about five minutes. Needless to say, I was not a happy Earthlink customer!!!
I have been working on my AUP webliography this week; I am going to do library visits as well this coming week. In fact, I will be able to do the visit to my current school library on Friday, when my students are going to be using the library computers to type their papers. I'm also working on my practicum hours with Carolyn at the other High school after school; we started weeding her ancient fiction section last week; among other things. I found one book with a card in it that I signed when I was in high school, circa 1967. We figured that particular book was probably a good candidate to be pulled, since the last due date was sometime in the 1970's!
My students are beginning to get the idea that I really meant it when I told them they had to read for Honors English. They were not all that happy about having to read a book over the summer, and then the very day after the test on that book, I made them all check out a book from the library to read over the next two weeks! Honestly, I have a hard time relating to kids who don't like to read!
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I understand that feeling very much. My son doesn't enjoy reading and he has finally made it to honors English in his Sophomore year!!!!
You might want to share his tactic with your class (or maybe not;-). He gets the unabridged book on tape and listens to it while following along in the book. For whatever reason this works for him. He went from a 50 something on the first test to a 98 on the second test so audio books might be an option for some of them.
I enjoy listening while I am driving or doing dishes (that really helps the time go by fast), otherwise I am the devour the words on the page type.
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