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[luminate]

Tonight I am just having one of those nights where I feel completely overwhelmed. I don't even know why. Just having doubts about myself as a teacher, I suppose.

It is frustrating that I probably feel this way once a week. I think it's mostly when I start working on plans for the upcoming week. I just want to do more with my students who are

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[littlefootlll]

I had a lot of those days when I taught so I can relate. Just know that you are making more of a difference than you probably realize. One thing I always liked to do with novels was to have students journal or do activities that connected the themes of the book to their personal lives. Its a nice break up of just the answering questions about the book and it makes the book more memorable I think. Type out one of the parts of the scene as a book and have them act it out? Just some ideas :) I'm sure what you are doing is great though!

I hope you get some rest soon!!! Sending hugs!

[luckey_me]

I always liked in high school when we used Post-It notes to note things in Hamlet. (Words we didn't know, connections we made, questions we had, etc.) I've also seen at a workshop for adults, they had big pieces of chart paper around the room with questions, and people wrote their responses (without names) by just moving around the room. Then, we all discussed responses together. Would you be allowed to let students use phones to tweet responses as they read, or have the homework questions on a blog and their assignment is to comment with their answers? Reading and answering questions is fine, but if it feels stale, see if you can do the same activity but make it look different. (I have it a little easier on this one- I gave my kids a quiz on index cards and they were thrilled because it was on index cards. So weird