Yesterday at the end of the day and after school I was able to meet with the 8th grade language arts teacher who's classes I will be working with next Monday. We planned the lesson that I'm going to do on evaluating websites and using the middle school's online resources to help with their upcoming persuasive essay. They will primarily be using the SIRS site which the district has a contract with. They will choose a website on their own and evaluate it with the checklist I created for them. I also will be distributing copies of Kathy Scrhock's 5 W's of website evaluation. I'm looking forward to working with these students as something other than a substitute teacher. I'm curious to see if their behavior will be any different.

middle school hours today: 2

total middle school hours to date: 6
total high school hours to date: 4
total secondary hours to date: 10