I'm supposed to be prepping; prepping for our homeschool co-op tomorrow. I teach the 6th and 7th grade book club, and we're reading Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson right now.
I've gotten side-tracked. Read a couple of e-mails (B&N and Amazon e-mails that I get detailing the "Best Books of the Week"; this one from Amazon, though, was the "Best Books of the Year"........wouldn't that sidetrack you, too??!); from those e-mails stumbled on a few blogs about books; from there spent some time adding a silhouette picture of our family to the bottom of my blog (isn't it cute?).
*SIGH* (not in a good way)
I ALWAYS dread Sundays because invariably I have put off planning for our book club class. I shouldn't admit that publicly, that I go into planning kind of dreading it. But I also want to share the rush I get as I start to delve into the assigned chapters, and begin jotting down notes and questions (with the help of a couple of free, on-line teachers' guides). I start to envision the lively discussions we will have, the quoting of the book that will occur as support for an answer to a question, the analyzation of characters. I love this!
This class has been a lot of work, but I really, honestly, and truly love to teach a book this way. Never done this before, so went into it with quite a bit of trepidation. Each and every Monday actually produces a bit of anxiety. But then something happens......class begins, we get in a groove, and then, class is over! It flies by! Great discussions (mostly with my 7th graders), good times, laughter, ponderings.
*SIGH* (in a good way)
So after I finish this post, I'll get back at it; I'll have to face the prepping, the anxiety, the work. But rest assured, that rush will come, the anticipation of a great class day will see me through yet another Sunday night.
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