Allergy Season Corresponds with Senior Season

This is a season of contrasts:  warm sunny days, cool sweatshirt nights; beautiful flowers, allergies gone wild; joyful seniors saying goodbye, tearful seniors saying goodbye.  I love this season, but it comes with a lot of emotional baggage.

I have to keep my freshmen going while we watch the Class of 2016 take their final exit.  Their energy is contagious, making it hard, but it's also an awful lot of fun.  Last week the Agricultural Science program brought in animals to showcase their program to the elementary students, but since it was on the high school property, many of us were able to go out and visit the animals while listening to our students give presentations on something they love.  It was great to see them in a different role:

This week the seniors will finish their projects and tests and tractor day will be Friday.  I'm in the senior hallway and they've already started to come by with hugs, invites to parties, and a few tears.  Then I step back into my classroom and reality hits:  we've still got 3+ weeks of school!  Last week we started Of Mice and Men.  They've read two chapters by now and they have work to go with it.  For the next two weeks you should see them with their books and packets.  There will be quizzes with each section, so they need to keep up, even if they're out for a field trip.  I'll try not to give homework over Memorial Day Weekend, but no promises.

This week we have the following schedule:

• Monday - we'll finish the chapter 1 packet and turn it in; quiz over chapter 1; chapter 2 should be read and we'll finish the vocabulary for chapter 2.
• Tuesday - we'll work on indirect objects; we'll finish the chapter 2 packet and turn it in; homework will be to read chapter 3 and do the vocabulary section of the packet.
• Wednesday - we'll finish the verb packet and turn it in; quiz over chapter 2; we'll work on the chapter 3 packet.
• Thursday - we'll start the verb review - test Tuesday 5/31; we'll finish and turn in the chapter 3 packet; quiz over chapter 3; homework will be to read chapter 4 and do the vocabulary section of the packet.
• Friday - we'll finish the verb review - test Tuesday 5/31; we'll finish and turn in the chapter 4 packet; quiz over chapter 4.

That covers it for this week.  If we need to slow down, I will, but I think we can do it. I hope everyone has a blessed week and survives the sneezing season as the cotton starts to fly!


Allergy Season Corresponds with Senior Season by Laura Stubbs is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
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