Mr. B Yells Into The Void™

This is it. My final week of internship. I can't wait to be in the class for a whole week straight!     Fuck, I shouldn't have jinxed it. That's right, this last week was fully online for me. I feel robbed. I did my best with what was handed to me, all things considered. But I didn't really get a fair send off. Seems kind of anticlimactic. To rectify this, I'll be going an extra day next week to have my official last day. A real chance to say goodbye to the kiddos. But for now, I'll talk a little bit about my final week at Southwick via Zoom! This being the final week, I ended up taking over a large chunk of most of the classes. They all went off without a hitch... mostly. Overall however, Mr. Ready and I were able to get around some online difficulties in very creative ways as co-teachers. The week had up’s and down’s. The first period of everyday was math. A warm up, a difficult problem to discuss with the class, and then a lesson or quiz is par for the cours...

I'm sure you've all experienced it at one point another. That passion you feel for a specific unit as you write it. The joy of coming up with engaging and fun ways to teach your students. The thrill of uncovering new information about a topic you thought you already had mastered. It's a great feeling. It is currently 10:50PM and I continue to add to my lessons because I'm honestly having a good time with it! (what's that? A college student is enjoying staying up late to do their homework in the middle of the night??)   You heard it right, folks. I'm confident, excited, and absolutely rocking this lesson plan! My current obsession is my social studies unit on Art Spiegleman's MAUS Series. MAUS was the first (but not the last) graphic novel  to win the Pulitzer prize in 1992. I had heard great things about the book, but had never read it before. I was honestly jealous when my brother's private school used the book to teach his class about the Holocaust....