There isn't too much to report at this point. I am still unplaced and trying really hard not to worry too much about it. Everyone says it will be fine, and I believe them...most of the time. I get emails often, updating me on the progress of everyone else getting placed, and I am slowly approaching the last 14% of '09 corps members not placed as school rapidly approaches. I spend time in the library pretending I have things to do, and reading things that may or may not ever pertain to my classroom. I am certified as a 4-8 generalist (I could teach any subject in that grade span) but there's talk that we could be placed in elementary schools, so that widens my span to possibly include Pre-K through 8th grade. So, reading about how to give out stickers or properly sit on the carpet may or may not help me in an 8th grade classroom. But that reading is keeping me busy.
In addition to haunting the library (for wireless connection as much as anything else), I am attending the new teacher trainings for HISD. It was during one of our sessions that I came across this gem of a poster at a middle school:
Enrique, quite seductively encouraging our young Spanish-speaking students to "lea" ("read"). And the book? The Old Man and the Sea. I'm pretty sure if I were 11 and went to this school, I'd hang out by this poster all the time.
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