AuburnChick's Adventures

When last I discussed my certification classes, I had just completed a project that took me nine hours to finish.  It was the BEAST, if you might recall.

Well, here is the feedback that I received from my professor:

“Consider yourself ‘over the hill!’ You earned 50 points for your artifact this week. Again, your work is ‘over the top.’ Get it, over the hill and over the top. I know corny!”

She’s a funny lady, eh?  I have appreciated her humor.  This class has been very, very difficult.

I spent the week working my vegan behind off.  It was Week 6 of the eight-week term.  With only one more week of assignments to go, I wanted to get ahead (Week 8 consists of creating an e-portfolio of the work completed all term).

What I really wanted to do was finish all of my assignments in two of my classes so that I could focus on another BEAST of a project in my reading class.

Two of my assignments were to create a grade book and to create a unit plan cover sheet.  I thought, upon first glance, that they would be easy.  Oh heck no!  I sent numerous emails to my teacher, and she kindly responded; however, by the time she did, I had pushed through.

I’m like that.

I do not like waiting on other people and generally figure things out on my own.

Regardless, her responses confirmed my original thoughts.

And so I uploaded those items…a full week plus two days early.

I had stayed up late every single night to get these things finished.  By Saturday, I was ready to take on my BEASTLY reading assignment.

My challenge was to write an entire reading lesson plan.

Writing a lesson plan may seem easy to veteran teachers, but to teacher-wannabes, it is no easy task.  There are so many things we have to remember to do, but the most important thing is to line everything up with the standards we are teaching.  This is quite challenging.

I worked hard…

Twelve very long hours…

Finishing in time to upload my assignment before heading to bed.

Sunday morning, I woke up with a little bit of a headache.

I suspect it was the release of stress.

Because I have worked so hard, I only have two small assignments left, and I cannot do those until other students post their assignments first since I have to reply to the work they post.

Of course, I still have to await feedback from my instructors.  I very well could have more work ahead of me, and because I am still learning, I fully expect this.  That is fine.  I feel like the bulk of the work is behind me.

I have to say that I LOVE three-day weekends!  Knowing that Monday would be a holiday, I decided to treat myself.

I gave myself Sunday off.

I desperately needed it.

Could I have been making lesson plans for the classes I teach?

Yes.

Could I have been studying for my General Knowledge Test, which I plan to take in March?

Yes.

Did I do either one of these tasks?

Nope.

Instead, I went to Joann Fabrics and bought yarn.  I decided I would knit…

I began work on a super-secret project…one I won’t be able to reveal for a few months.  I managed to knit 1/4 of my project while I watched NASCAR, The Amazing Race, The Other Boleyn Girl, and some other movie that I can’t remember the name of.

I am keeping my fingers crossed that this next week will go smoothly, and that I won’t have too much work to resubmit.

Term 1 is almost finished.

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