I've spent the better part of my Sunday evening trying to plan for this Whale Talk unit, and I feel a little defeated. I miss the days of college when I had a month to plan a unit - without the pressure of having to teach the lessons tomorrow.
This book is so amazing that I feel like I need to do it justice. I'm putting a lot of pressure on myself to make this fabulous, and I'm feeling it. I need to get through the text before we can do much with it, but I don't want to overload the kids. I just tried to plan out reading assignments, and I feel like they're manageable, but I'm not sure. With block schedule, the kids will get 2-4 night to do the reading, and I don't think 50-60 pages is too much to ask. Especially since they all wanted to read ahead anyway.
I just don't know. I should have started this sooner. I need to get it done, but I hate to do anything less than amazing because this book deserves a-mazing.
Sigh ... I think I'm too enthusiastic about this. Is that even possible?
No comments:
Post a Comment