Short update this week, as we spent an inordinate amount of time focused on the SBAC tests, and had little time for much else. Your students deserve a round of applause for completing their first week of rather grueling testing.
We have been diligently working to prepare for our upcoming debates, which start on Monday and go through the following Tuesday. The debate schedule looks like this:
Monday 5/18
Teacher Pay
Tuesday 5/19
Abortion
Wednesday 5/20
Gay Marriage
Physician Assisted Suicide (Death with Dignity)
Friday 5/22
Racial Profiling
Violence in Video Games
Tuesday 5/26
School Uniforms
Please come prepared on your scheduled day!! Don't let your teammate down! If you need support, please come talk to me. Be an advocate for yourself and don't stop until you feel you are confident and ready to debate.
Stay tuned for Illustrated Poetic Devices, ancient Greece, Microfiction, and a few other projects to wrap up our year.
Don't forget Independent Book Projects!!! Due JUNE FIRST!
More to come! Thanks!!
P.S. I have scheduled a few conferences already for the last week of May, and I look forward to hearing from more of you soon. I hope I will have the chance to meet with many of you before the year is through.