Long weeks
I’ve been back at school, though I missed two days last week (Tuesday and Wednesday) and since I’ve been struggling to keep up with everything, i haven’t updated this journal. The biggest disappointment has been the way my students behaved on Friday with the substitute. I go one of the worst sub reports that I have ever had when I returned to work on Monday. The 7th graders, though a bit talkative, were not bad, and I reinforced my expectations, and some potential consequences (specifically losing rights to German Candy club as a class, and being written up individually) The 8th graders were rude and disrespectful, which I won’t tolerate. For the most part, individuals were named, with the exception of my 8-7s & 8-8s who were particularly bad. These students were read the riot act. I brought everything, disappointment, anger, embarrassment, you name it. And it is true. It is a slap in the face to me to return to this. I won’t tolerate it. I need to start making some calls, but am having trouble finding time before or after school
On another note, I’m progressing with the 7th graders into Lektion 2 of the Schule unit, this means that they will have a change to work with the vocabulary during their next class (long days with the sub) and can move onto a story on Friday.
I’m still not where I would like to be with 8th grade I had planned on writing some stories and developing the vocab lists, but right now I’m just plodding through the textbook chapters in 8th grade. Though I’m not using the textbook itself very much.
