lady_sarai: (I teach. What's your excuse?)
HI GUYS! It's been awhile.

I AM DONE. Spring semester ended officially last night after my very last presentation. I am freeeeeee. ...Well, until my summer course starts next Tuesday. But it's just the one class, as opposed to three. WHY I thought I could handle three graduate courses at once is beyond me now, but it looks like next year I can take two courses in the fall and two in the spring, then the summer practicum and I'll be done with the program! So--I am pleased with that.

IN ANY CASE. I did this last November, so I thought I'd do it for this April/May, since I've been, oh. Too busy to sleep. (...No, really, there was at least a two week period where I averaged 4-5 hours per night. If I was lucky.)

So. This is what I've been up to... )

And oh yeah. I put the entirety of my Lit Log online as a blog as my final project for the Horrible Computer Course. Just checked, and got an A+ on it, wooo! This brought my course grade from an A- to an A, which pleases me greatly. (The A- was because I didn't participate in class enough. Which was because if I participated, I would have said mean things.) And my grade for my Tuesday class is in too, and that's an A, so YAY! Just my Children's Lit grade to go. ...So far my assignments for that class have received perfect marks, so I am not so worried. (She is keeping my Literature Log as an exemplar to show future classes, which makes me a little bit giddy. Considering all the work I put into that sucker, I think I am allowed to be? Maybe?)

Oh, also--if you have never read anything by Wendy Mass, you really really need to. She's awesome and I loved her books. (She is who I did my author study on.)

IN ANY CASE, I AM DONE!
lady_sarai: (Teaching certificate)
For my own curiosity, here's what I did in November:

Reading:

-Reading with Meaning, Debbie Miller (174 pgs)
-What Really Matters in Response to Intervention: Research-Based Designs, Richard Allington (190 pgs)
-Variability not Disability: Struggling Readers in a Workshop Classroom, Cathy Roller (160 pgs)
-Classroom Strategies for Interactive Learning, Doug Buehl (212 pgs)
-Chapters 5-9, 12, 14 & 15 of Becoming a Reader: A Developmental Approach to Reading Instruction, Michael O'Donnell & Margo Wood (total 132 pgs)
-Chapters 8-13 of Subjects Matter: Every Teacher's Guide to Content-Area Reading, Harvey Daniels & Steven Zemelman (86 pgs)

Total: 954 pages

Writing:

-Research paper 2 (7 pgs/1919 words)
-"Why Do Readers Struggle?" reaction (2 pgs/834 words)
-Annotated Bibliography for What Really Matters in Response to Intervention: Research-Based Designs, Richard Allington (1 pg, 400 words)
-Double-Entry Journal response to Variability Not Disability, Cathy M. Roller (2 pgs, 1564 words)
-Application Paper (10 pgs, 4020 words)
-12 lesson plans (~1500 words each = ~17820 words total (~60 pgs); roughly 10000 words in November)
-Portfolio reflection (3 pgs, 844 words)
-Response to Reading with Meaning, Debbie Miller (6 pgs, 1724 words)

Oh, and NaNo: 51500 words (96 pages)

Total: 72,805 words/~167 pages

...Holy shit, no wonder I didn't have time to breathe in November.

Oh, I know what I didn't do in November--sleep.
lady_sarai: (Bart can kill you with his *brain.*)
So, I hit a landmark last night:

30000 / 50000
(60%)


Also, I've had a plot breakthrough, which is making it a lot easier. I stalled out for a little while around 25k, but then I had a EUREKA! moment, and I'm happy again, and we shall just see how this goes.

But once I hit 30k, I took a much needed break and wrote some comment fic. I may write some more today, but there needs to be kitchen floor mopping happening first. Bleh. Oh, and class.

OH, AND--got my second paper back from my Monday class last night. A-! Again! So 45% of my grade is an A-. I am way okay with this. (And 10% is participation, and I am not sweating that one. I talk in class. Shocking, but true.) So, you know. I'm pleased!

Anyway, the comment fic:

Tim/Cissie, waking up late
Tim/Kon/Cissie, "You don't need to sleep on the couch. There's plenty of room in the bed."
Tim/Cissie, "Can I come in?"

So, yeah. Mopping time now. Maybe more comment fic later. I only have 20-zillion bookmarked.

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