You guys suck...you little workers who don't have time for me anymore. It's okay, I have my new teacher orientation all next week (8-4...I haven't seen 8 AM for awhile now). I'm just sitting here miserably soaking my foot in an ice bucket. Guess what though? I haven't texted Jordan all day. I know, not that cool...but totally a big deal for me. And I have every intention of waiting for him to contact me before I say anything. Ha...take that. I did start crying this morning for no apparent reason, but it lasted a good 1 minute before I was over it. I think I have my grad school stuff figured out. I'm going to go through Grand Canyon University (I find it ironic that I will be getting an Arizona teaching license). $20,000 later I will be making $8,000 a year. No complaints. My life is going to suck next year, but I'm used to it as this point. It will be like I'm going to TIRP, only I won't have to deal with ice woman. Another good thing is that they'll take up to 12 of my graduate credits from UCCS, so that means I can get out of 3 classes (glorious) and another 12 credits is strictly student teaching (which I'll have my own classroom, obviously, so it won't really be hard...and I'll totally turn in my case study from last year if I have to). God has His ways...I'm trusting it at this point. I don't know what I'm supposed to be learning at this point, but I am surely being tested. My motto: "I don't know how to fail." Conceited, I know...but totally me. Maybe I should get that tattood on my side? Still pondering the ink. Well, anyways, I need to finish reading "Beowulf" among other things...seeing as how I'm not going to have any time to plan lessons or grade next year (I need to figure out a system). I like how Rick had the kids do like 5 papers, but he only graded 1 (and the kids didn't know which one). I was also thinking of having them journal everyday, but I want to come up with a system for grading that doesn't require a lot of effort (like check plus, check, check minue, zero). Brandon, did you try those home groupings that we discussed with the guy from Manitou that one day? I'm pretty sure you did. How did it work? I have honors kids. How am I going to push them...hell, they probably know more than I do. Speaking of knowing more. I really liked this passage from "Beowulf" but I can't really grasp what it's saying:
"But death is not easily/escaped from by anyone:/all of us with souls, earth-dwellers/and children of men, must make our way/to a destination already ordained/where the body, after the banqueting,/sleeps on its deathbed."
We're always on our deathbed? Waiting for death? PS...Seamus Heaney is fabulous. And do you pronounce Heorot as "heart?" I know, I'm so not an English-er...and I love to make up words.
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So, I'm glad that all of your stuff with grad school is going well. That'll be good. You'll work out the grading. I don't have an effing aide yet, and I'm kind of freaking out. I'm used to having like 2-4 aides, so yeah, panic is setting it. Tomorrow I'll write a blog about school...you'll like it. Anyway, I'll call you with how to say "herot" but it does mean "heart," because it's the heart of the town.
As for the quote, here's my take on it, especially since I've studied it like four times. It is talking about how death is going to happen to all of us. We have a future already mapped out for us and we can't really fight our destiny. This is especially important to the study of Beowulf as it came out with Christianity forcing itself onto the Anglo-Saxon way of life. They were Pagans, and you can easily analyze the mixed references to both religions. I'll help you find them if you need me to. I'm teaching Beowulf starting late next week, probably. I love it. Yay for Beowulf. :)
I do find it rather fascinating, surprisingly. I don't know what I'd do without you...either of you...
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