... No. Not quite yet. While I have made significant progress in getting ready this week, I still have some basic elements (such as my Canvas home pages) to get done. I will say that putting that off did work in my favor as I attended an inservice today which completely changed how I want to set my home pages up.
I am still figuring out pacing for content and point values for assignments. While the district is asking that we have two weeks prepared before school starts on Monday, my point system requires me to have at least an entire quarter ready to go from the start. Since neither of my preps this semester are classes that I taught last year, I have quite a bit of planning to complete in the next three days.
Surprisingly, I feel pretty calm (almost zen) about this situation. It will be what it will be. I have plenty of content and assignments ready to go, and I'm actually getting excited about most of the stories that I've picked out for my freshman English course. Many of them are old favorites that I haven't taught since I worked back in Colon. Actually, considering that my other classes are both 12th grade British Literature courses (like the course I developed back in Colon), this semester really feels like I'm getting back to my early days of teaching.
I might not be quite ready yet, but I have clear idea of what lies in the path ahead.
I am still figuring out pacing for content and point values for assignments. While the district is asking that we have two weeks prepared before school starts on Monday, my point system requires me to have at least an entire quarter ready to go from the start. Since neither of my preps this semester are classes that I taught last year, I have quite a bit of planning to complete in the next three days.
Surprisingly, I feel pretty calm (almost zen) about this situation. It will be what it will be. I have plenty of content and assignments ready to go, and I'm actually getting excited about most of the stories that I've picked out for my freshman English course. Many of them are old favorites that I haven't taught since I worked back in Colon. Actually, considering that my other classes are both 12th grade British Literature courses (like the course I developed back in Colon), this semester really feels like I'm getting back to my early days of teaching.
I might not be quite ready yet, but I have clear idea of what lies in the path ahead.
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