Spring Break - NOT

Well, this week has been spring break. No classes to go to at all. My day class was on spring break and my independent study class doesn't meet. My night class was supposed to meet, but the professor went to Hawaii for the holiday. The master's class wasn't scheduled to meet at all - which was a good thing because there was three inches of snow on the ground Saturday morning;-) It was gone by noon, but at least we didn't have to worry about driving in it or attempting to head anyone off at the pass.

But this lack of class meeting did not herald any time off for me. Instead I spent Monday doing all the filing I have been ignoring for the last month or so and then figured out every assignment I had due in the next two weeks. I tried to guess at approximately how much time each assignment would take and then I broke that down into 90 minute blocks. That took my morning so I had some bagels for breakfast to celebrate;-)

I managed to deal with several errands in my 'other' category this week as well as finishing:

ALL of my EDU101 assignments for the next two weeks which means I read a chapter, did the two deep thought questions on the chapter, wrote a 3 - minute speech, created a poster about my teaching philosophy and did an essay about that philosophy.

ALL of my EDU313 assignments for Monday - not interested in getting ahead until I know more about how the class is going to work. This entailed reading three chapters, pulling out the one sentence in each chapter that struck a chord with me, and answering 15 multiple choice questions on each chapter.

4 1/2 out of 13 projects in EDU421 - this is the class with the Shakespeare unit;-) But all I accomplished was 4 1/2 deep thought questions. What would you want your students to read in your English class? I'm stuck because there are so very many, but I am trying to limit myself to what we would actually have time to cover. Not fun.

For my masters: Webpage setup and organized with all supporting links, credit page done, and oodles of graphics ready to input as my team feeds me the info, my question done, my escan done, and my shelf list done. I also started the text activities- not fun. This means that I have to do the collection analysis this week, but since everything else is out of the way, it shouldn't be hard. Why does the quote famous last words just spring into my mind?

In the other category, agriculture census is done (yeah - farmer girl too), got all of my internet bookmarks re-organized so I should be able to find the things I know I have seen, and I have the power point for next week's presentation 85% done. Thanks so much to everyone who gave me input to make it better. It really helps to have a second (or third, or fourth, or fiftieth) set of eyes on something like that. I really do hope I can make that an annual thing. Now to decide what the handout should be;-)


So, I am ready to go back to class and rest.