Monday, Monday

Why do so many of us seem to dread Mondays? Even the pets in my house seem to prefer weekends when they can sleep in later with no early morning alarm to wake them. (You'd think they'd get up at the same time each day.) In an effort to start the week out well, I like to spend class time on Mondays with writing and reading workshop. Writing is such a powerful way to clear your mind and get in touch with your thinking. I'm looking over the plans for our class tomorrow, and I am remembering a few things we still need to finish up from Friday. We didn't get to check portfolios, so we will start with a quick grade check form. We will also set dates for book responses and goals for your independent reading (the books you plan to read this quarter and the kind of book responses you have chosen to do.) Revised papers need to be handed in tomorrow along with any other make up work. We will start working toward our first process paper this week.

This a brief post tonight. We have a brief week coming up, but we have a lot of important writing to do. If you dread Mondays, you might think of tomorrrow as Tuesday because this week is a four day week for you!