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The Spanish 3 classes began by reviewing the subjunctive, focusing on the use of expressing emotion. They were given a worksheet on the subjunctive and were given about 15 minutes to complete it. After going over the front of the worksheet, they watched a video, created by the Realidades textbook publisher. They watched a segment [...]

Ms. Pickens was sick today, which was actually quite ironic because I feel that I have recently had a dream about Ms. Pickens being sick one day and me having the responsibility of taking over her classes. There was a substitute teacher today, but she was very nice and let me pretty much take over [...]

Ms. Picken’s Spanish 3 students began the last chapter of the semester today. She told all of her classes this at the very beginning to give them some final motivation to end this semester well. She reviewed vocabulary that the students had already learned that would pertain to this chapter: the chapter about relationships with [...]

Today, Ms. Pickens’ first three periods, her Spanish 3 classes, took a test. She reviewed the vocabulary words before the students were given the test by presenting a Power Point that had the Spanish word presented first, followed by the English translation. She would preface each word by saying if they needed to know it [...]

Today was quite an interesting day at school because it was the day after the new President-elect was decided. Upon entering the front office, I heard the main secretary on the phone with a worried parent who thought their child was not safe at the school for some reason. The principal gave a reassuring speech [...]

Today was such an excellent first day of my first true experience in a high school classroom. I grew up in a high school classroom because my mother taught high school Science, but it is truly a completely different experience now. I still cannot get over the fact that I am about to be THE [...]

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