InstaDigest: Jan 30 - Feb 10

My lesson plans for the last two weeks + pictures from my classroom

Here’s what I want you to notice:

In eighth grade, there are multiple activities listed that have asterisks beside them.

These are lessons, activities, assignments that I improved and subbed in at the eleventh house because my previous lessons, activities and assignments were such a disaster.

I mean, real disasters.

The kind where you think to yourself at the end of class: “They just learned nothing. If anything, I made their understanding worse. And I am going to have to figure out a way to start from scratch tomorrow.”

In fact, it was so bad that I gave two of my sections study hall time (which I never do) just so the third section could get caught up.

And so it goes.

All the time.

For all of us.

It has been one of those weeks around here, and that’s okay. Next week, the school musical (which involves most of my students in one way or another) will be behind us and we’ll start afresh.

Here are my plans (and amended plans) from the last two weeks & what our classroom looked like: