Laws of Gravity

Tuesday. Film Studies. Seventh period.  When I walked in the classroom first thing in the morning, there was a note projected on the screen....

Wednesday I was back at the continuation high school. And... Meh. The teacher was chaperoning a field trip whale watching. I had one student...

Friday. Seventh period. Integrated math 1. (Read: algebra 1.)  The plan was for them to do their study guide for a half hour, then I'd g...

Friday. Halloween. Seventh grade science... (If anyone recalls how I started last school year--long term for a maternity leave for a seventh...

In February, I took a long term gig covering a class that had lost its teacher at the semester. It was a mad scramble .  At that time, the l...

Wednesday. Seventh period success, eighth grade.  Success is about teaching the kiddos study skills. There's some social/emotional stuff...

Monday. Fifth period AP English (twelfth grade, literature).  All the classes had assignments on paper that had to be turned in at the end o...

Wednesday. Eighth grade science. In a classroom directly across from that art class I just left.  Several of the students had been in the ar...

Wednesday. Seventh period. As usual, I was standing outside the classroom "greeting" the students as they walked in. "Your co...

Friday. Seventh grade science. Third period.  The lesson plan had them working on a Friend or Foe paper. (They were given two organisms--pla...

Monday. My last day in the English class.  As is my habit, the first thing I did was to get out my computer(s) and log on. Very quickly I di...

Tuesday. Third period.  Upon finishing reading chapter three of The Great Gatsby , we were to watch the scene from the 2013 movie version . ...

For second period, I sort of co-teach with another special ed teacher. (The "sort of" is doing a lot of heavy lifting. It's a ...

Because I was covering Ms. M's math classes for two weeks, I was given access to her Google Classrooms and the set up she usually uses t...

Wednesday. It had finally stopped raining, and it was likely to be an easy day. I got into the classroom, turned on the lights, and I headed...

Thursday. I was having a morning. I had gotten out of my house late, and by the time I got to school, I was feeling rushed.  The good news w...

Eighth grade history. Tuesday. Before school, I had borrowed one of the classroom's Chromebooks so I could take roll and such. I opened ...

Wednesday was my last day in the English 9 classes.  When I began the classes (oh so long ago--3 1/2 weeks prior) I had requested and receiv...

Continuation high school. Friday. CAD class. Second period. Class had started. I finished taking roll. Then Javier arrived with a pink class...

When I got the lesson plans for last week, there was a question in them. "Is there a way to play a DVD in the classroom?" Yup, we ...