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Wednesday?

It's only Wednesday, and I feel as though it's been a full week. I'm teaching an after-school reading program. Although it's only an hour after school, it's made a long week even longer. My fellow seventh grade language arts teacher and I are co-teaching the class. Due to this weeks events we've had a difficult time choosing a novel. Last week we were excited to choose Monster, but thought it might be a bit challenging for these struggling readers. Monday we decided to go with another book. We looked at the lit circle books. Tears of a Tiger was out after the recent suicide of a sixth grade student that has rocked the school. Bang! was our next title, but we also thought this was a bit "too soon". Finally we chose The Hunger Games. Although there is death involved it's not as "real". Tonight we had to explain our choice and decided to be "real" with the students. We explained the death of two staff members' fathers and the death of the sixth grader were a bit overwhelming.

Overwhelming doesn't seem to put it in words. Today we went to our colleague/friend's father's funeral. Tomorrow we will attend the visitation of the young girl since we taught both of her brothers. Plus, we will continue to teach and support our students. Friday's MRI will end the week followed by a pedicure and dinner with a great friend. Is it Friday yet?

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LH said…
I hope you get to Friday asap.
And I think Hunger Games is a great choice.
5:21 PM
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