High Speed

This year has so far been really fast pace. Its amazing what the switch from 55 minute periods to 45 minute periods does to your adrenaline levels. It's like going from running 100 minute sprint intervals to doing plyometrics. It's also different wrangling the energy of these 10th graders to dealing with the idleness of graduating twelfth graders. Today went by in a blur. I needed to make up a lesson in 45 minutes about patterns and it went over a lot of kids heads. although they were able to see what I was talking about, they weren't able to see it as something that they own. I will have to talk about the concept of constant difference in a different light when I have other classes and with the other ones. Luckily this class is ahead of all the other ones so now I can fix that lesson over night and come up with something better by tomorrow.