Adventures In Room 106

I love Shakespeare. Have I mentioned that before? His words create magic both on the stage and in the classroom and his ideas and stories are still relevant to teenagers in 2017. Currently, TWO of my classes are reading a Shakespeare play and I'm on cloud nine. English 9 is reading Romeo and Juliet  and English 10 is reading Twelfth Night . The freshmen are a little hesitant to get into the reading but they will come around... I just know it! Meanwhile, the sophomores are all in. Today we broke down Act I, scene iii into three sections. I asked students to decide where the scenes were taking place and what the actors are doing and how they are saying their lines. Each group was given complete creative freedom. The short skits turned out better than I could have imagined. They really got into their roles and setting up the classroom into the exact scenes they wanted. In order to make sure every group member was involved, they had a student lay face down on the ground i...

Oofda... it's been a bit since  I have last written. While it is true that this school year seems to be flying by, it hasn't been without its share of issues. This has probably been the most trying year and I'm not quite sure why. I'm in year three; I've got some experience under my belt which is better than where I started out at the beginning of year one. However, I seem to have run into more (different) issues than I had in my previous two years. I'm not going to go into any further detail because since turning 26 last week, I have decided to let things go and to make the best out the situations that I am given... after all, if you can't roll with the punches then education probably isn't the best career choice.