It was fun to start today's classes with one of my favorite love poems: Falling in love is like owning a dog It's Thursday so it's reading day in my classroom. My IB kids seem to love it. They are involved in their books and look forward to having time to read them. Some find precious little time outside the classroom to read. They swear to me that they're so overscheduled that they spend zero time on TV, MySpace, and other time-wasting pursuits. How sad. I know their lives are busy, but it bothers me to think about being a kid with zero time to yourself. I know my life was an exception in many ways, but I remember my high school years as a time when I felt like I ordered my own existence for the most part. Certainly school took a big chunk of my time, and I did my share of homework (mostly in Trigonometry), but I also had time for the beach, tons of reading, walks in the woods, even some dating and a social life. I always thought I grew up kind of fast, but now I see that the drudgery of being an adult, being overscheduled, having a stack of responsibilities, etc, has been introduced to kids much earlier than when I was young.
Today most of them are reading Of Mice and Men, the text we're studying in class right now. Next week we'll watch the movie which makes for an easy four-day week for me. Can I begin looking forward to the weekend already?
It's birthday week for me; I keep expanding the celebration. Enjoy all the love in your life today!
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Happy Birthday. Don't you love when an easy week is on the horizon? Are you going to see Billy Collins at the DA Writer's fest? I'll be there. March 15.
Billy Collins?! I'm marking my calendar right now.
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