Things have been getting a little bit better for me. I am probably not going to see a counselor after all since our insurance company makes us pay $1,500 out of pocket before they'll begin covering 80%. Complete and total bullshit. I'm going to see if my university has free counseling services. At least if they do I'll get 4 months worth of help.
Wednesday and Thursday I'm going to teach my first full days of lessons. I'm having the students analyze the role of speaker and tone in Muriel Rukeyser's "Effort at Speech Between Two People." I'm going to have the kids decide who they think the two people are and what parts of the poem are each person's words and then re-enact it in front of the class. I think they'll enjoy it because there is no wrong answer, only what they feel.
I also have to come up with a bulletin board. I was thinking about doing one for the poetry unit, but I'm not sure. I would like to get all creative but I'm having a block right now. Maybe it's just the fact that I'm starving, but I'm waiting for my dear Hubby to come home.
In other news, I've been put in charge of trying to reach a student who is exactly like me at 17. I'm not sure how to do it. She's a very talented writer. Today I read a poetry assignment of hers and told her exactly how good I thought it was. She lit up. The only problem is that part of it was about using drugs and alcohol to deal with her problems. I told her a suggestion might be to pick up a pen and a piece of paper every time she feels like she can't deal. I think she liked the idea, she proceeded to tell me about how she plays the guitar too. If I could reach this girl it would make my year. I love my "job" so much.
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