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angelchickenHappy Halloween, everyone! I hope you are all full of candy and happiness and other good things.
I, myself, am not full of candy, but I am full of knowledge about memory (I hope) because I have a quiz tomorrow (If I don't I will throw the FIFTEEN PAGES OF NOTES written over THREE PLUS HOURS OF READING ONE CHAPTER in my teacher's face. Not really, but the imagining of it will be sweeeeeeeeeeeet).
Also, I have a problem. The problem is with procrastination. Now, everything that is due tomorrow is done. Done and done with no problems and no worries and happiness and fuzzy bunnies and all that.
It's next Monday. Monday November 8th. That is the problem with procrastination.
Because that is when I have a 10 page research paper due. No big deal, right? It's a somewhat broad topic about dyslexia, something I'm pretty familiar with anyway, so ten pages should be a breeze, especially with the FOUR MILLION SOURCES* I have acquired over the past two weeks. I am a veritable CORNUCOPIA of books and JSTOR articles and all that good stuff.
The problem is that I don't so much remember how to write a research paper. I mean, I went to the Center for Academic Development to talk with a gentleman name Grover about this problem. I don't know if that helped or made things more confusing (if I think about it it probably helped).
Now I am in my "logic"** phase of working on the paper. I mean, how will I know I'm on the right track if I don't get feedback from my professor tomorrow? It would suck to spend time doing work only to realize that I was doing it wrong.
THIS IS NOT HOW I SHOULD BE THINKING!!!
Of course, I could also be doing the Analysis of Teaching and Learning (ATL) that is also due on the 8th but there is one small snag in working on that: I have no clue what I am supposed to be doing for it.
Dear Practicum Teacher,
Do you know what DOESN'T HELP?
Giving us examples of what we are NOT SUPPOSED TO DO!
Possibly you could work on that? Soonish?
kthxbai,
AC
All I know is I have to answer questions about my observation and cooperating teacher/school. Cool. I even have the questions to answer. Except I don't know how I am supposed to answer them (essay? Short answer? 300 words? 1000? Hello . . . ?) nor do I quite understand everything else to be submitted with it. A graph of my lesson results. Okay. Sure. How do you want it presented? Oh, a spreadsheet? Cool. No, wait, a bar graph? Pie chart? Venn diagram? FOR THE LOVE OF ALL SAINTS DAY TELL ME WHAT YOU WANT AND I'LL DO IT!
Also, it mentions on the sheet you want our final lesson plan. Is that the one that is due tomorrow? Or is it the one the cooperating teacher signed? Or both? Should we submit it twice? With all of the addendum(s?)? Do you want the actual student's work samples or will photocopies suffice? Because I am going to have to make the copies anyway, but maybe I can make . . . less?
I don't even know.
ALSO! In an effort to motivate myself I have scheduled an appointment to meet with Grover again this Friday to go over my written research paper. So it should be written by Friday.
And I have class all day tomorrow, I'm observing on Tuesday and Wednesday and I have a CPR class on Thursday (but no school class. The class is meeting to go see "Waiting for Superman" which I can't see because of the CPR class. I'll have to go in my own time. WHENEVER THAT IS!)
Also, I have my regular coursework to do.
And when this is done I get to start on my Field Based paper for my Social Justice class, due November 18th.
Grad school. Who knew? /rhetorical
In other, less ALLCAPS news, PK is even more of a rockstar then he has ever been. He is almost sitting up on his own, he has a tooth (A TOOTH!) and if you put a remote control on the floor he will skootch and slither and almost crawl his way to it, even if it's, like, ten feet away!
AMAZING! He is such a perfect lil' guy. We're hanging out tomorrow night and Friday night. I am the luckiest Godmother in the world.
Uhhhh, things with guitar guy are still . . . thinging. What things are, I'm not so sure. But fun is being had, so that's something. And he is very strict about him paying while I am a poor student. I have no problems with that. And he is rarely in Illinois so I don't have to worry about him distracting from my MASSIVE STUDY TIME.
OKAY! Time for me to get back on the studying wagon. Woo! Dyslexia and self-esteem! Decoding vs. Comprehension!
Maybe after a nap . . .
* Possibly not literally. Possibly.
** Quotation marks can be considered sarcastic
I, myself, am not full of candy, but I am full of knowledge about memory (I hope) because I have a quiz tomorrow (If I don't I will throw the FIFTEEN PAGES OF NOTES written over THREE PLUS HOURS OF READING ONE CHAPTER in my teacher's face. Not really, but the imagining of it will be sweeeeeeeeeeeet).
Also, I have a problem. The problem is with procrastination. Now, everything that is due tomorrow is done. Done and done with no problems and no worries and happiness and fuzzy bunnies and all that.
It's next Monday. Monday November 8th. That is the problem with procrastination.
Because that is when I have a 10 page research paper due. No big deal, right? It's a somewhat broad topic about dyslexia, something I'm pretty familiar with anyway, so ten pages should be a breeze, especially with the FOUR MILLION SOURCES* I have acquired over the past two weeks. I am a veritable CORNUCOPIA of books and JSTOR articles and all that good stuff.
The problem is that I don't so much remember how to write a research paper. I mean, I went to the Center for Academic Development to talk with a gentleman name Grover about this problem. I don't know if that helped or made things more confusing (if I think about it it probably helped).
Now I am in my "logic"** phase of working on the paper. I mean, how will I know I'm on the right track if I don't get feedback from my professor tomorrow? It would suck to spend time doing work only to realize that I was doing it wrong.
THIS IS NOT HOW I SHOULD BE THINKING!!!
Of course, I could also be doing the Analysis of Teaching and Learning (ATL) that is also due on the 8th but there is one small snag in working on that: I have no clue what I am supposed to be doing for it.
Dear Practicum Teacher,
Do you know what DOESN'T HELP?
Giving us examples of what we are NOT SUPPOSED TO DO!
Possibly you could work on that? Soonish?
kthxbai,
AC
All I know is I have to answer questions about my observation and cooperating teacher/school. Cool. I even have the questions to answer. Except I don't know how I am supposed to answer them (essay? Short answer? 300 words? 1000? Hello . . . ?) nor do I quite understand everything else to be submitted with it. A graph of my lesson results. Okay. Sure. How do you want it presented? Oh, a spreadsheet? Cool. No, wait, a bar graph? Pie chart? Venn diagram? FOR THE LOVE OF ALL SAINTS DAY TELL ME WHAT YOU WANT AND I'LL DO IT!
Also, it mentions on the sheet you want our final lesson plan. Is that the one that is due tomorrow? Or is it the one the cooperating teacher signed? Or both? Should we submit it twice? With all of the addendum(s?)? Do you want the actual student's work samples or will photocopies suffice? Because I am going to have to make the copies anyway, but maybe I can make . . . less?
I don't even know.
ALSO! In an effort to motivate myself I have scheduled an appointment to meet with Grover again this Friday to go over my written research paper. So it should be written by Friday.
And I have class all day tomorrow, I'm observing on Tuesday and Wednesday and I have a CPR class on Thursday (but no school class. The class is meeting to go see "Waiting for Superman" which I can't see because of the CPR class. I'll have to go in my own time. WHENEVER THAT IS!)
Also, I have my regular coursework to do.
And when this is done I get to start on my Field Based paper for my Social Justice class, due November 18th.
Grad school. Who knew? /rhetorical
In other, less ALLCAPS news, PK is even more of a rockstar then he has ever been. He is almost sitting up on his own, he has a tooth (A TOOTH!) and if you put a remote control on the floor he will skootch and slither and almost crawl his way to it, even if it's, like, ten feet away!
AMAZING! He is such a perfect lil' guy. We're hanging out tomorrow night and Friday night. I am the luckiest Godmother in the world.
Uhhhh, things with guitar guy are still . . . thinging. What things are, I'm not so sure. But fun is being had, so that's something. And he is very strict about him paying while I am a poor student. I have no problems with that. And he is rarely in Illinois so I don't have to worry about him distracting from my MASSIVE STUDY TIME.
OKAY! Time for me to get back on the studying wagon. Woo! Dyslexia and self-esteem! Decoding vs. Comprehension!
Maybe after a nap . . .
* Possibly not literally. Possibly.
** Quotation marks can be considered sarcastic
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Date: 2010-10-31 11:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-11-01 12:57 am (UTC)PK and Guitar Guy are both swell.
Pierce, though, is the best. B.E.S.T. He's just more amazing every time I see him and I can not even believe he's the same lil' 4.7lb preemie that needed to spend three weeks in the NICU.
He's growing and developing and doing everything that babies do and it's amazing.
But I gush. Today I got this picture of him:
He's in his black turtleneck that he wears under his pumpkin costume (with tights! So cute!) and glasses I got on a Build-A-Bear about four years ago.
Classy! =)
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Date: 2010-11-01 01:04 am (UTC)