Friday already?

 So, this week has been a tiring one, and yet it seems a bit of a surprise to me that I only have to teach 2 more lessons today. And when I say teach, I mean it in the loosest sense of the word.

My Year 13 class have been doing silent reading for 2 and a half lessons this week, and the other half a lesson consisted of me answering a few simple questions, and reading aloud a section of the book. It's lovely. I've been rereading 1984 with them, and I'm thoroughly enjoying it. Today we're looking at the section where Winston reads the Book of the Brotherhood, which is quite politics-y, so there may be more questions.

The nicest thing so far has been the student who came into class on Wednesday, having struggled with the book for 4 lessons, and said "I love this book - it's so good!"

You can't buy publicity like that in the classroom. Well, you probably could bribe students to say things like that, but an unbribed student declaring that she's enjoying Orwell was pretty morale boosting.

There was also some pressure from students to have story-time again, as I had said that I was going to read to them again. I read them the first 10 pages, then a little bit around page 40, and had promised to read some more from page 97. The students who had kept up with the reading were quite insistent that I should read to them, while the people who were behind didn't want spoilers. In the end we all went outside, and I read to the 'close group' while the people who were behind sat off by themselves and read. A brilliant plan, except for the chilling wind. Brrr!

So, Debbie is off at Stagechallenge today (having gotten very little sleep last night). She probably won't get home until about midnightish, which is pretty harsh given that she was at school at 7:30am. Poor hard working Debbie! It should be fun though, it's a pretty high-energy good-vibe activity.

L&S are coming up the coast to keep me company tonight, which should be much fun. There is Sin City to watch, as well as It's a Wonderful Library, which Norman was kind enough to make me a VCD of so I can get my very nice Y12 students off my back.

I am planning on having a go at editing as well, so I have the tapes from the 48. It will be very interesting to learn to use the Pinnacle editing software on Debbie's laptop, and I suspect it will be a rather satisfying process (though most likely irritating as hell at times, when I can't get the software to do what I want it to). I am planning on using some different takes to Norman, just for variety's sake. And there's every chance that I'll want to record more silly music for it too :)

Bring on the weekend I say!

PS: A Year 12 student just delivered an invitation for me to go to a free lunch assessment, where he will cook me a meal. Awesome. I don't even teach him this year - he was in my Y11 class last year. He was one of the 'Officer and a Gentleman' sailors on Mufti day.