Today while I lounged in a hammock, laughing at my daughter in her own hammock, I was struck by how weird this week was. We started off by missing Monday and then a three hour delay on Tuesday because of snow, and by Friday we didn't need coats. It turned into a short compact week, but we still got a lot done.
When we got to school on Tuesday, we had a limited amount of time before college classes. Nevertheless, we made the most of it and took care of some MAP testing that needed done. I also collected FOUND POEMS! I was a little discouraged by how few I got. It's the last major grade of the 3rd 9 week grading period. I'm going to have to make some phone calls this week to get the missing poems turned in before grades are due. Otherwise, several students will have an incomplete for English.
During our one class, we focused on animation projects. You can see examples (not all good) of last year's short story animations on my website. If anyone has not seen the poetry podcasts from the beginning of the year, there's a link to them on that page as well. I left the story selection up to impartial and incorruptible chance. I wrote down the 20 stories from our text book and put the numbers 1-20 on slips of paper. Each class got to pick from a randomly selected group of 5 numbers. Interestingly enough, all of the stories pose their own unique challenges and come with their own advantages.
I'm looking forward to seeing how the short stories make their way into clay/stop action animated shorts.
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