And So Begins Another

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School year, that is. Today was the first teacher workday of the new school year here in NC. It was an optional workday but I opted to work rather than use a leave day and stay home. I needed to get into my classroom and see what's to be done to be ready for the students when they show up next Monday. This year I will be teaching Social Studies in the fall and Science in the spring to my seventh graders. Right now I have three classes with a total of 88 students. That number will certainly change by next Monday. It is just a question of if it will go up or down and by how much. I did go shopping at a local store called The Learning Center, a store started by retired teachers for teachers. I found some great material there to use in class this year. I am covering the period from the 1400s up to the day before the semester ends. And I've got 18 weeks to do it. 700 years in 18 weeks, I can do that. Last year I did 3 million years in 36 weeks.