It's a date

So for my own ease of reference, I'm including the dates when I begin doing official teaching.

October 12th: Begin Invisible Man in AP Lit.
October 21st: Begin Night and teaching about writing a personal narrative to the students in Freshman Lit.
October 26th: Begin teaching Media Literacy and Awareness and Advertising in Journalism.

For Freshman Lit, I'm going to be working very closely with Mrs. C and really learning how to teach the book Night. She does extensive introductory material because, as she said: "I just can't throw them into a book like this. I just don't teach that way." I think for any book, but holocaust literature especially, you can't just let students rush in and get whatever they get. Don't get me wrong, I am all for personal interpretation and personal relevancy, but for some books I think the author's own feelings need to be made explicit.

After those teaching periods, it should return to a fairly relaxed atmosphere. I will be teaching lessons and doing units, particularly on and around Web 2.0 with students and how to include and incorporate that into their studies. It feels so weird to say Web 2.0: I actually had to Wiki "Web 2.0" in order to make sure I wasn't just saying a buzz word I'd heard at yesterdays in-service and parroting it, but it is what I mean.

I do have one more set assignment for the term though, which is:

December 7th through 23rd: The Odyssey with the Freshman Lit. class. I love this story, and I think it's worth reading/hearing. By then I should be confident and comfortable, this class should know me well and we should be able to have a really great time. It helps that Mrs. C really hates The Odyssey, so she is very eager to have me teach it. I am going to try and win her over that Odysseus is a great human being and that it's a love story, but she assures me it can't be done. We shall see!