My posts have been few lately. I'm simply swamped with teaching and coaching. In two classes (College Comp II, 21 students, and College Comp I, 30 students) I have more students than I do in all of my classes next semester! I just returned my College Comp's descriptive class. But that one essay was the result of a much longer writing process. First, they described their favorite time of the year. Then they described their most prized possession. Third, they could choose to describe whatever they wanted. That means there were 90 drafts that I read and commented on. Then students chose which ever essay they thought was the strongest and revised it into a second draft. Then they peer edited and submitted a final draft, which was another 30 essays to read. In all, that was 120 essays and responded to.
In College Comp II, we have been reading Mark Bauerlein's infamous The Dumbest Generation and discussing it. They are about to begin working on a multi-media project that seeks to prove Bauerlein completely wrong.
My smallest class, Lit and Lang 9R, is actually one of the most difficult. Not only have I never taught reading before, but I'm also working hard to differentiate instruction to each. That means a ton of extra work. And for the most part, I have not been able to devote enough time to this class. But football is ending soon.
And speaking of football, that consumes nearly every afternoon from 3 until 6.
There just isn't enough time in a day. But by early October football will be over and I'll be able to focus more on my classes. I just don't know how head coaches can handle the work load.
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