Marching in like a Lion, or a Lamb?

Oh, what will the weather do next?  It's so hard to tell.  It's a beautiful day today, but I guess by Tuesday (March 1st) it could be kind of nasty.  And let's not forget tomorrow:  it's a leap year!  Any suggestions of fun things to do with a class for a leap year?  I'll have to look it up.

Anyway, this is going to be rather short and sweet.  Last week was a little chaotic because of, well...everything.  But the end of the week was especially so for me.  The snow day took out one of the days for us to work on the Emily Dickinson poem, and then I had a family funeral to go to in Hillsdale County - the "Home" county for me, since it's where two sections of my family come from - so it was sad, but a little like going home.  As a result, I feel very disconnected from Airport right now.

I did manage to take a couple of pictures of students doing something other than working on a research paper.  On Wednesday, a very sleepy first hour tackled Emily Dickinson's poem "I felt a Funeral, in my Brain," a poem we'll pick back up with on Monday.  Here are the photos:

Most of the week, however, still centered around their papers.  So here's what's coming up next:

• Monday - we'll take some time to print the final copy of the paper and turn it in; then we'll go back to Dickinson's poem.
• Tuesday - we'll finish the Dickinson poem.
• Wednesday - we'll go back to verbs; then we'll start working on background information for The Crucible, our next unit for the year.  Today we'll do a KWL to access prior knowledge and practice asking questions for research, then we'll do a 10% Summary over the Salem Witch Trials article I've printed for them.
• Thursday - after tackling some more verbs, we'll take some notes on Arthur Miller, and then work on an article that gives them information on McCarthyism.
• Friday - hopefully we'll be able to start The Crucible.

So that's our week.  We're coming towards the end of the term - about three weeks left.  Tenth grade schedules are due to be turned in to the counseling office by Tuesday.  Spring is in the air (at least at the moment).  I anticipate a good week!  Ciao!


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