Each Wednesday (or thereabouts) I’ve been recording a Curiosity Journal to recap the previous week using these tag words: reading, playing, learning, reacting and writing. Sometimes I mix up the order, just to keep you on your toes.
Care to join me?
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Reading
This past week’s reading: 14 student papers, three to five pages in length, MLA format with a Works Cited page.
I estimate this process of reading, commenting, evaluating and grading consumed 16-20 hours, including e-mail exchanges with students and parents, and an hour-long phone conversation. It’s exhausting.
However, the autodidact in me is more than satisfied. I learned about everything from bioluminescence, concussions, and graphic design, to puppy mills, windmills, and lice.
Writing
If I can count the notes I sent back to my students as writing, then I wrote practically nonstop.
Learning
What did I learn this week? See “Reading.”
Playing
The only chunk of time when I wasn’t trying to slip in more grading was when my brother and I took my dad out for his birthday at a small-town restaurant, the Mayberry Cafe.
Reacting
Forgive my brevity this week. I’m sort of shell-shocked from the grading.
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I’m sorry for the tired of all that grading. Perhaps you should arrange a getaway soon? Say…to a Texas canyon? Meet you there.
graphic design to lice…
oh my, what a varied life you lead.
that cafe looks very interesting. does the car stay parked out front as part of the ambiance?
blessings.
It’s true! Fortunately, I only had to *read* about lice.
Yes, the cafe is totally committed to the Andy Griffith show. A replica of Sheriff Taylor’s car is parked outside, and TVs throughout the cafe play reruns of the show. As you eat, you hear Barney Fife getting defensive about something and all the familiar music segues and the theme song whistle.
This is assuming you are familiar with that vintage TV show?
I completely had this kind of week for about…hmm, that past 3 weeks at least!