Saturday, 2 December 2006

Books and blogs

Lots of hair loss yesterday! Alas! I may be bald by the end of the week.

School went well Friday. I only had one group form 11:00 till 12:20 but I did stay on for lunch and to work on the handover with the supply teacher. She and I will be sharing my classroom since she is now doing all my middle school classes.

The students seems to appreciate having me back. It helped that in that class of 12 I had already taught 9 of the students in previous years. On Monday I will see the rest of my classes and then on Tuesday I will be off again for chemo. I'm going to try my hardest to be there every day next week no matter how badly I feel.

I've just started reading a new book. I don't know if any of you are interested in fantasy. I'm reading Eragon, a book published for young people but which is equally good for adults. It follows the adventures of a young man who discovers a dragon egg and then becomes one of the legendary Dragon Riders. I was originally attracted to the book because it was written by a 15 year old. This Chrismas it is also coming out as a film.

I have been continuing my voyage of discovery of blogs. I have set up one each for my French classes, which will give me an opportunity to keep in touch with students even when I'm unwell. I got the idea from a teacher in the UK who is using a blog with her A-level English class.

Has anyone else reading this started a blog. It would be interesting to see how others are using them.

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