I had an IEP meeting this morning, so I left my APGOV students with a sub after about the first twenty-five minutes of the block, but I brought them donuts to make up for it. For their assignment, I’d...

My APGOV students tackled the second half of Brutus 1, the argument that a republican form of government cannot succeed in a country as large as the US, in the same way they’d tackled the first half o...

Mr. JL and Mr. F joined my APGOV class this morning for my students’ presentations, and it was awesome to have them there. Each group of students introduced themselves, read the policy memo they’d crafted, and then fielded questions from the three of us. Having them there was great because they asked questions I hadn’t thought to ask, their perspectives and thought processes are different, and their presence added a level of difficulty- but not an insurmountable one- to the project. Students often find it hard to present their work to one adult, so presenting to more than one is a big deal. I thought they did a really awesome job, though, and I’m happy with their written memos, too. They really showed their understanding of the issues they chose to write about as well as their ability to express liberal and conservative viewpoints accurately. I also think this set them up well for the rest of the course, which is great. Global Studies was also great. Students finished revising the current events write-ups they had been drafting. They added conclusions, put in transition words and stronger verbs where applicable, and proofread their work. I had to help a few students who’d skipped steps or just wanted to turn their work in without making any changes, but then everyone got on the right track. I tend to change the way I teach students how to do these write-ups from year to year, but this might have been some of my best teaching, so I’ll definitely be keeping this lesson as is for next time. So it was a good day, and it ended at the football stadium for the first home game of the season. I checked tickets, as I always do, then went and hung out with some of my colleagues in the bleachers. It wasn’t a very exciting game, at first, but it picked up and our team came away with the win!

Today was one of those days that got more challenging as it went on. I don’t mean that anything bad happened, though. I just had more to do. My APGOV students spent the block putting the finishing ...

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I spent most of my day proofreading work: my Global Studies students’ multigenre projects, my APGOV students’ final projects on their towns, and even some of Mr. SF’s students’ final projects. It’s al...

Today was our seniors’ final day of classes, which mean a lot of them were coming around to say thank you, ask to have their yearbooks signed, and generally make me emotional. In APGOV, we successf...

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