Wednesday, November 9, 2016 (Day #55)

Post date: Nov 9, 2016 8:56:03 PM

I don't think anyone could have predicted the outcome of election 2016 twenty-four hours ago. It's been all the talk of classes, hallway discussions, as well as lunch in the faculty lounge. It's this shock - it's over, and Donald Trump won. Now what? I hope that we can come together as supporters, non-supporters, and wait-and-seers. (I have no idea how to describe myself in the categories. I wasn't really a supporter, yet I voted for him in hopes that change can happen.)

In Literature 9 we finished up our Point of View Workshop. Then we reviewed the definitions for the last two vocabulary words. The rest of the class period was given to finish and work on the CLOSE. This is due tomorrow.

In English 10 I showed how to change our box in the Museum Box. We want to have one layer, two boxes. The cubes will be big enough for us to put all the information we want into it. Then we went over #1-10 of an Adjective Worksheet. We took out our Personal Experience Outline and began working on our notes. Twenty words for our introduction card, forty words for our body cards, and ten words for our conclusion card. Rehearse tonight as we're going to start giving speeches tomorrow.

In American Government we started by debriefing the election. Since Hillary Clinton was going to give her concession speech during class, we watched that, Paul Ryan's address, and then we just discussed what happened last night. It's so exciting to see young people fired up about the election process. I was really happy to see kids have "election night" parties, and sit up and watch the results come in. I hope that enthusiasm sustains itself through the next two years. Hopefully they will get involved in the governing of their college campuses and communities. They should watch the video on Socialism before coming to class on Friday. They should also make sure that they leave room in their notes for the rest of our mixed market notes.

I can't do 2 o'clock in the morning too often - I'm definitely too old to stay up that late, and then try and teach a full day. But hey, it isn't every day that history is made!