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First Day of School

The stations and activities I have kids work through on the first day of school.

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I have peaked as a teacher. Nothing I can ever do will top this! Maybe I shouldn’t have done this so early in the year... 🤣😍 The kids were super stressed out going into it, but they had so much fun (and learned a bunch), and now they want an escape room for every book we read. 🤦‍♀️🤪 Thanks @writeonwithmissg for the idea & inspo! #aplit #aplitchat #iteachela #htrllap #howtoreadliteraturelikeaprofessor #secondaryenglish #teachersfollowteachers #teachergram #escaperoom #englishescaperoom

Week 1 of the 2019-2020 school year is done! How do you plan? I start on sticky notes, move to my agenda template for each class, and then write down what we accomplished in my planner to have for the next year, so I do a mix of paper and digital! I already changed the layout for next week so my to-do list is on the far left column and then all my classes are together in the order I teach them through the day. I may get into stickers once I’m a little less busy! 🤷‍♀️🤣

07.21.19-08.03.19: I was too lazy to post my outfits last weekend and too tired to remember to take pics of my outfits last week, so you get two weeks worth of the outfits I remembered to take pics of! 🤣🤷‍♀️ I haven’t set up my August bujo pages yet, so I haven’t planned my work outfits yet, which means I’ll just be repeating outfits until that happens LOL back to school time is so busy for me! #teacherstyle #summeroutfits #ootd #ootw #outfits #outfitinspo #summerstyle #teachersofinstagram #teacheroutfit #styleinspo #puttingmetogether #pmtdressedme #whatiwore #outfitsandcats #meowtfits #everydayimcardigan #whatiwore #weekendstyle #teacheronsummerbreak #weekendstyle

I was finally #caughtreading! Where (and how) I spend most of my nights! This egg chair is the comfiest little reading spot, and the lights I hung on it give me the perfect light for reading late into the night while I get to breathe in the outside air and wind down from a busy day. Where’s your favorite reading spot? Post a picture of yourself reading in your favorite spot or in a unique way and tag it #justcaughtyoureading, especially if you’re a current or past student of mine or fellow English teacher! . . . #justcaughtyoureading #becauseofreading #bibliophile #readingspot #favoritereadingspot #readingismyescape #booknerd #bookish #booklover #bookstagram #igreads #englishteacher #aplit #englishteacherproblems #teachersfollowteachers #teachersofig #iteachtoo

Read 38 of 2019: Insight by Tasha Eurich Synopsis: Learn how to develop self-awareness and use it to become more fulfilled, confident, and successful. Most people feel like they know themselves pretty well. But what if you could know yourself just a little bit better—and with this small improvement, get a big payoff…not just in your career, but in your life? Research shows that self-awareness—knowing who we are and how others see us—is the foundation for high performance, smart choices, and lasting relationships. There’s just one problem: most people don’t see themselves quite as clearly as they could. Fortunately, reveals organizational psychologist Tasha Eurich, self-awareness is a surprisingly developable skill. Integrating hundreds of studies with her own research and work in the Fortune 500 world, she shows us what it really takes to better understand ourselves on the inside— and how to get others to tell us the honest truth about how we come across. Through stories of people who have made dramatic gains in self-awareness, she offers surprising secrets, techniques and strategies to help you do the same—and how to use this insight to be more fulfilled, confident, and successful in life and in work. Insta Review: So, I think the synopsis of this book is incredibly misleading. I didn’t walk out of reading this book with more “self awareness” or insight into why I do the things I do and how others might perceive that. I walked out bored out of my mind... not the best self help book, in my opinion. Rating: ⭐️⭐️.5 #bookstagram #mayreads #selfhelp #businessbooks #recentlyread #nonfiction #insight #teachersfollowteachers #englishteacher #selfhelpbooks #psychologybooks #shinebookclub

Read 37 of 2019: Beartown by Fredrik Backman Synopsis: People say Beartown is finished. A tiny community nestled deep in the forest, it is slowly losing ground to the ever-encroaching trees. But down by the lake stands an old ice rink, built generations ago by the working men who founded this town. And in that ice rink is the reason people in Beartown believe tomorrow will be better than today. Their junior ice hockey team is about to compete in the national semi-finals, and they actually have a shot at winning. All the hopes and dreams of this place now rest on the shoulders of a handful of teenage boys. Being responsible for the hopes of an entire town is a heavy burden, and the semi-final match is the catalyst for a violent act that will leave a young girl traumatized and a town in turmoil. Accusations are made and, like ripples on a pond, they travel through all of Beartown, leaving no resident unaffected. Beartown explores the hopes that bring a small community together, the secrets that tear it apart, and the courage it takes for an individual to go against the grain. In this story of a small forest town, Fredrik Backman has found the entire world. Insta Review: I’m not a hockey person at all, which is why I put off reading this book for so long, but it’s about so much more than hockey. I devoured this, felt all of the feels, and definitely plan to reread this one a little slower one day along with the sequel. It’s definitely a departure in style for this author, but it just solidified the fact that I need to read even more of his books. Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5 #bookstagram #mayreads #literaryfiction #igreads #recentlyread #fiction #fredrikbackman #beartown #teachersfollowteachers #englishteacher #worldlit

Read 36 of 2019: There There by Tommy Orange Synopsis: Tommy Orange’s shattering novel follows twelve characters from Native communities: all traveling to the Big Oakland Powwow, all connected to each other in ways they may not yet realize. There is Jacquie Red Feather, newly sober and working to make it back to the family she left behind. Dene Oxendene, who is pulling his life back together after his uncle’s death, has come to work at the powwow to honor his memory. Fourteen-year-old Orvil has come to perform traditional dance for the very first time. Together, this chorus of voices tells of the plight of the urban Native American—grappling with a complex and painful history, with an inheritance of beauty and spirituality, with communion and sacrifice and heroism. Hailed as an instant classic, There There is at once poignant and laugh-out-loud funny, utterly contemporary and always unforgettable. Insta Review: I originally picked this up because I wanted to find more contemporary Native American voices to add to my unit in American Lit. I’m no longer teaching that course next year, but I still highly recommend this. It’s short, and there are twelve unforgettable characters featured throughout the book. I laughed and cried, and I loved getting to know them and their very realistic life challenges. Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #bookstagram #mayreads #literaryfiction #nativeamericanlit #igreads #recentlyread #fiction #tommyorange #therethere #teachersfollowteachers #englishteacher #americanlit

Read 35 of 2019: Born a Crime by Trevor Noah Synopsis: Trevor Noah’s unlikely path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth. Trevor was born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother at a time when such a union was punishable by five years in prison. Living proof of his parents’ indiscretion, Trevor was kept mostly indoors for the earliest years of his life, bound by the extreme and often absurd measures his mother took to hide him from a government that could, at any moment, steal him away. Finally liberated by the end of South Africa’s tyrannical white rule, Trevor and his mother set forth on a grand adventure, living openly and freely and embracing the opportunities won by a centuries-long struggle. Born a Crime is the story of a mischievous young boy who grows into a restless young man as he struggles to find himself in a world where he was never supposed to exist. It is also the story of that young man’s relationship with his fearless, rebellious, and fervently religious mother—his teammate, a woman determined to save her son from the cycle of poverty, violence, and abuse that would ultimately threaten her own life. The stories collected here are by turns hilarious, dramatic, and deeply affecting. Whether subsisting on caterpillars for dinner during hard times, being thrown from a moving car during an attempted kidnapping, or just trying to survive the life-and-death pitfalls of dating in high school, Trevor illuminates his curious world with an incisive wit and unflinching honesty. His stories weave together to form a moving and searingly funny portrait of a boy making his way through a damaged world in a dangerous time, armed only with a keen sense of humor and a mother’s unconventional, unconditional love. Insta Review: Hilarious and heartbreaking. Just read it. And then go see him live. Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #bookstagram #mayreads #memoir #igreads #recentlyread #nonfiction #trevornoah #bornacrime #teachersfollowteachers #englishteacher #bookclub #abrunchofbooks

07.14.19-07.20.19 I didn’t realize Friday’s pic was so blurry, and I only took one. 🤦‍♀️🤷‍♀️ Also, I took Sunday off from dressing myself and bummed around in my PJs all day. #teacherstyle #summeroutfits #ootd #ootw #outfits #outfitinspo #summerstyle #teachersofinstagram #teacheroutfit #styleinspo #puttingmetogether #pmtdressedme #whatiwore #outfitsandcats #meowtfits #everydayimcardigan #whatiwore #weekendstyle #teacheronsummerbreak #weekendstyle

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