While I intended to write almost daily over the summer of my experinces with the NEH in Virginia, I now find that the summer has ended and I barely wrote at all in my blog.  So I’m not going to make promises I can’t keep and say I will write regularly of my teaching this year, but will say that you can expect an occassional reflection here of my middle school teaching and also my dissertation readings.

Today was a good day.  I worry about whether or not I can keep it up over the coming months, though.  I’ve never before actually taught the traditional one hour per day class, always having taught college courses and the double block courses here at the middle school.  My two one-hour blocks will be an experiment for me in careful time management.  I also worry about my curriculum.  As much as I am not a math teacher, I had grown accustomed to the math curriculum last year and felt comfortable with it.  As an English teacher, I’ll rely much less on the set curriculum and more heavily on my own resources.  That’s frightening.  This will be a marathon run for me in many ways.  Something new and exciting in so many ways.

Peace out.  I’ll try my best to reflect here more regularly on my work!  But no promises!