Punch School in the Face
This project for my class was not that hard. Really.
Choose a topic.
Find 5-6 articles about it.
Make an annotated bibliography.
Do 6-8 lesson plans teaching whatever comprehension strategy you chose.
And yet I let it hang over my head until the day before it was due.
I started at about 4:30.
I got 5 and a half of 6 lesson plans done by 7:40 when I left to visit teach. I finished the 6th one at 9 PM, within fifteen minutes after I got home.
After I finished, I felt such a huge weight lifted off of my shoulders.
I was so excited and had so much energy that I decided to rock out to Marilyn Manson in my car on my way to and from rewarding myself with a fatty treat. Seriously. It felt so good to have it done.
The project wasn't that bad. I really don't know why I put it off till the day before it was due. I'm such a freak about checklists that if something is lingering on my list for a while it starts to give me anxiety and weighs on me a lot. I should have done it way before now so that I wouldn't have been so stressed. Relieving myself of the weight earlier would have been a wise decision.
Blah blah blah. Shoulda woulda coulda.
But now it is finished. And I get to move on to grading 120 essays. By Sunday.
Doable.
Choose a topic.
Find 5-6 articles about it.
Make an annotated bibliography.
Do 6-8 lesson plans teaching whatever comprehension strategy you chose.
And yet I let it hang over my head until the day before it was due.
I started at about 4:30.
I got 5 and a half of 6 lesson plans done by 7:40 when I left to visit teach. I finished the 6th one at 9 PM, within fifteen minutes after I got home.
After I finished, I felt such a huge weight lifted off of my shoulders.
I was so excited and had so much energy that I decided to rock out to Marilyn Manson in my car on my way to and from rewarding myself with a fatty treat. Seriously. It felt so good to have it done.
The project wasn't that bad. I really don't know why I put it off till the day before it was due. I'm such a freak about checklists that if something is lingering on my list for a while it starts to give me anxiety and weighs on me a lot. I should have done it way before now so that I wouldn't have been so stressed. Relieving myself of the weight earlier would have been a wise decision.
Blah blah blah. Shoulda woulda coulda.
But now it is finished. And I get to move on to grading 120 essays. By Sunday.
Doable.
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