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Done!

It only took two weeks, but I’m finally finished cleaning out my classroom. Three garbage sacks, two large boxes and one homemade tree with hollow knothole (and two soap children) are sitting on the floor waiting for August, when the building will be cleaned and waxed.

Even though I won’t be teaching freshmen or sophomores next year, I couldn’t totally toss all of my units for the books. The mantra that I might need them again, kept repeating in my head. I did toss all the vocabulary stuff. As a department, we’ve been thinking of changing the way we do vocabulary for the past four years… which led to everyone doing their own thing and no one coming up with anything solid. Guess what one of my summer projects will be?

It feels very good to know that I’ll be somewhat organized when waltzing in come August. Now comes a week’s vacation, followed by an AP conference, a camping trip and then the slide back into school. As usual, I’m sure it will go by extremely fast.

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Jill said…
I despise the way that we teach vocabulary (in virtual isolation, making connections between the words is 100% on me, words chosen based upon the SAT), but so far, we haven't come up with anything better. I'd be interested in seeing what you come up with.
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