May 2014 Reads

May, alongside all of its cease of twelvemonth craziness, was non a calendar month for a ton of reading.  I read the to the lowest degree amount of books inward a calendar month that I've read all twelvemonth - 8 books.  And, iii of those were sound books that I listened to spell driving my car.  Question - how has it taken me thus long to think of trying sound books?  I drive to reckon my parents on a weekly basis, in addition to it's a 75 infinitesimal drive each way.  I tin knock out 2 in addition to a one-half hours of an sound book.

The solely occupation is that my daily commute is non precisely conducive to listening to sound books.  I alive 5 minutes away from school.  So, I tin hear to 5 minutes of the mass during my morn commute.  But, I commonly exercise my afternoon commute every bit an chance to telephone telephone my mom or sister.  I acquire TERRIBLE jail cellphone telephone reception at my house.  Honestly, I'm surprised that people all the same telephone telephone me sometimes.  I tin direct keep 7-10 dropped calls inward a unmarried conversation.  US Cellular informed me that my neighborhood is located inward what is known every bit the drop-off zone.  It's half-way betwixt the jail cellphone towers inward Tulsa in addition to OKC which agency the service is spotty at best.  And, there's zip they tin produce to aid me.  Once I detect reception somewhere inward my house, I can't motility my caput a fraction of an inch inward whatever direction unless I desire my telephone telephone to live dropped.  Usually when I telephone telephone people dorsum subsequently this happens, they'll say something like, "You moved your head, didn't you?"  I don't think they realize how hard it is to agree your caput perfectly all the same spell talking on the phone!  

So, I haven't been able to goal an entire sound mass inward my car.  Every unmarried time, I cease upward bringing the cds inward my household thus I tin goal the story.  I'm the type of individual that gets super invested inward a mass in addition to has to figure out what happens correct away!

I'll write virtually the 3 sound books first, in addition to thus I'll tackle the 5 physical books I read this month.

(I mentioned the fact that I've been listening to sound books to some of my students spell nosotros were fundraising for prom the other day, in addition to they told me that this wasn't something I should acknowledge aloud.  Apparently, sound books are non cool...)


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Miles to Go yesteryear Richard Paul EvansI read the to the lowest degree amount of books inward a calendar month that I May 2014 Reads

My friendly world librarian recommended The Walk serial yesteryear Richard Paul Evans to me several months ago.  However, someone had checked out the initiative of all mass inward the series, The Walk, in addition to kept it.  She insisted that I needed to start at the offset of the serial to fully grasp its amazingness.  So, I've been putting off reading this serial until I tin detect a re-create of the initiative of all book.

But, the other day, I was looking to cheque out an sound book.  I've been a long-time fan of Richard Paul Evans, thus I checked out i of his books to hear to.  Once I had already left the library, I realized that I had just checked out the 2nd mass inward The Walk series.  You know, the same serial that I had pose off starting until I could read the 2nd book.  Well, I started the serial inward the middle, in addition to I am inward LOVE.  The mass kept me guessing the entire time.  And, I literally constitute myself sitting inward my garage alongside my motorcar running because I couldn't bear to halt until I got to the cease of a chapter!  And, in addition to thus I just had to direct keep the cds within to goal the book.  So good!  I can't hold back to read the adjacent mass inward the series.  At some point, I should in all likelihood acquire dorsum in addition to read the initiative of all book, too.  Will he ever acquire inward to Key West?  Who volition he come across adjacent inward his walking journeying across the United States?



Two for the Dough yesteryear Janet EvanovichI read the to the lowest degree amount of books inward a calendar month that I May 2014 Reads

This was my 2nd ever Janet Evanovich novel.  I'm pretty sure as shooting the town I alive inward is obsessed alongside Janet Evanovich.  The librarian has recommended her books to me at to the lowest degree twice.  My landlord has recommended her books to me.  My principal's married adult woman who runs our schoolhouse library has recommended I read her novels every bit well.  I've decided that the Stephanie Plum novels are okay, but they're really just non my loving cup of tea.  As much every bit I dear sound books, I had a really hard fourth dimension staying focused on this book.  I was trying to hear in addition to multi-task at the same time, in addition to I kept finding myself thus confused alongside what was happening that I had to move along rewinding the mass to figure it out.  As someone who has spent most of their life reading either Christian fiction or classical literature, these novels are a tad scrap likewise much on the trashy side for me.



Lavender Morning yesteryear Jude DeverauxI read the to the lowest degree amount of books inward a calendar month that I May 2014 Reads

Of the iii sound books I listened to this month, this was yesteryear far my favorite.  I started listening to it on a drive to Tulsa.  After an initial scrap of confusion which was completely intentional yesteryear the author, I before long constitute myself sucked into the story.  An elderly neighbor/friend leaves you lot a household inward their volition inward a town named subsequently them that they've never mentioned.  And, they tell you lot to motility to the town in addition to to espouse a sure as shooting individual that you've never met before.  Hello, I straightaway direct keep a ton of questions that I can't hold back to detect the answers to!  My mom in addition to sis rode inward the motorcar alongside me the same twenty-four hr catamenia that I started this book, in addition to I forced them to hear to the sound mass alongside me.  Having missed the initiative of all hr in addition to a half, they were a tad confused.  So many twists in addition to turns.  I loved it!  Apparently, it's the initiative of all inward a series.  And, I'm excited to reckon if my library has whatever to a greater extent than books inward the series.  This is my initiative of all fourth dimension reading this author, in addition to I'm definitely impressed!

Okay.  On to the books I really read myself.


Keep a Little Secret yesteryear Dorothy GarlockI read the to the lowest degree amount of books inward a calendar month that I May 2014 Reads

Since Drumright's library is thus small, they direct keep to come upward up alongside creative ways to stretch their express budget.  One of the ways the librarians produce this is to lease a sure as shooting release of books instead of buying them.  This is something I didn't fifty-fifty know was possible!  The rack of leased books is placed thus you lot move yesteryear it correct when you lot acquire into the library.  They direct keep special tags to permit you lot know that they are leased books.  This month, I checked out a leased mass for the initiative of all time.  I've been trying to expand my horizons yesteryear checking out novel authors.  I was initiative of all drawn to this mass yesteryear it's intriguing title.  Next, I opened upward the dust jacket to reckon that the mass was virtually a instructor inward Oklahoma.  Seeing every bit I am a instructor inward Oklahoma, I decided this mass was meant to be.  I'd never heard of Dorothy Garlock before, but the encompass touted her every bit the premier author of Americana romance.

While checking out my books, I told the librarian that I was trying out a novel author.  She said that most of her patrons either absolutely dear this author's books or absolutely loathe them.  She hoped that I would dear them.  I really liked the initiative of all 75% of this book.  It had mystery.  It had romance.  It was set inward my abode state.  But, the lastly quarter of the mass left me unsatisfied.  I can't quite pose my finger on what I didn't similar virtually it, though.  Unlike some books, I'm non rushing to read the adjacent mass inward the series.


Mockingjay yesteryear Suzanne CollinsI read the to the lowest degree amount of books inward a calendar month that I May 2014 Reads

So, I finally got around to finishing the Hunger Games trilogy!  I really wishing I had read this mass correct subsequently finishing the 2nd book, but someone had it checked out of the library at the time.  I spent the initiative of all 10-15% of the mass really confused because I couldn't quite retrieve how the previous mass had ended.  This mass made me thus mad at times.  Or, mayhap I should say that the characters made me thus mad.  I would literally direct keep to closed the mass in addition to acquire produce something else because I was thus worried virtually the decisions they were making!  After calming down, I would render to the mass in addition to read on.  This is really a mass that you lot direct keep to read carefully (at to the lowest degree I do) or you lot tin missy of import details in addition to cease upward super confused!  I didn't realize that i of the characters had died until they started mourning them.  Oops...  I'm thus thankful that the cease of the mass left me alongside a feel of closure dissimilar some series.  Overall, I really enjoyed this series!


Strength inward Numbers: Collaborative Learning inward Secondary Mathematics yesteryear Ilana HornI read the to the lowest degree amount of books inward a calendar month that I May 2014 Reads 

I was lucky to have this mass for gratis every bit component of the Oklahoma Geometry in addition to Algebra Project (OGAP).  This workshop has been the best professional person evolution workshop I've ever attended!  I read the initiative of all 2 chapters correct subsequently receiving this mass dorsum inward February, but the busyness of schoolhouse meant that this mass got set aside.  The goal of this mass is to brand you lot rethink how you lot construction cooperative learning inward your classroom.  Cooperative learning in addition to groupwork is an expanse that I combat greatly with!  When I went to #edcampTULSA, I fifty-fifty moderated a session on it to endeavour to acquire to a greater extent than from others!

Now that schoolhouse is out for summertime (YAY!), I finally took the fourth dimension to set downward in addition to goal the book.  It was thus skillful that I finished it inward a unmarried day.  I couldn't pose it down.  My re-create is filled alongside highlighting in addition to notes in addition to underlining.  Based on the data inward the book, I've created some sets of posters featuring grouping run norms, judgement starters, in addition to words I desire my students to emphasize inward my classroom similar please, give cheers you, in addition to yet.  Hopefully, I'll acquire a post upward sharing these posters in addition to novel creations soon!  If I don't post them, põrnikas me until I do!

I'm excited to start the novel twelvemonth alongside a novel approach to collaborative learning.  And, I'm develop to live on the picket all summertime for groupworthy tasks.  I seriously can't recommend this mass enough!  


Accessible Mathematics: Ten Instructional Shifts That Raise Student Achievement yesteryear Steve LeinwandI read the to the lowest degree amount of books inward a calendar month that I May 2014 Reads

How tin I total this mass up?  I ordered it from Amazon, in addition to I read it within 24 hours of receiving it inward the mail.  Some of the shifts seem similar mutual feel at first, but I took away thus many ideas that I excogitation on implementing inward my classroom adjacent year.  My students combat alongside release sense, in addition to I pass a lot of fourth dimension complaining virtually this.  This mass showed me that I should halt complaining virtually it in addition to really start doing something virtually it.  Whether it is a criterion that I "should" instruct or not, I direct keep to create upward one's heed what is of import for my students to know.  And, it's upward to me to emphasize those things inward my classroom.  I'm also thinking of switching upward my bellwork physical care for alongside a physical care for from this mass on how to start class.  I direct keep thus many ideas floating around inward my caput correct now!  I really desire to acquire dorsum through the notes I took spell reading this mass in addition to reverberate on them inward a post.  Awesome book!

The First Days of School: How to Be an Effective Teacher by Harry K. Wong I read the to the lowest degree amount of books inward a calendar month that I May 2014 Reads

This mass was initiative of all recommended to me yesteryear my initiative of all pedagogy professor inward college.  I bought a re-create in addition to read it earlier my initiative of all twelvemonth of teaching.  Then, I bought iii or 4 other books on teaching in addition to classroom direction in addition to read them, too.  Every mass took a different approach, in addition to they all seemed to contradict i another.  I became thus overwhelmed in addition to confused that I entered the classroom without a excogitation for classroom management.  I persuasion I'd fly it, in addition to I've been winging it for the yesteryear 2 years.  They haven't been super ugly, but they haven't been pretty either.

If I was making a listing of my weaknesses every bit a teacher, classroom direction would live at the top of the list.  I can't serenity my shape without raising my voice.  Therefore, I pass a lot of fourth dimension raising my voice.  Afternoon classes volition come upward inward in addition to brand comments virtually how they knew my 2nd hr shape was terrible today because they could hear me across the hall inward their history class.  I don't desire this to live the case.  I pass way likewise much fourth dimension trying to move along my students on task.  I ever persuasion that I would acquire to run inward a schoolhouse that had a clear set of rules in addition to consequences.  That isn't the case.  There is no penalisation handed out for tardies.  Rarely is truancy fifty-fifty punished.  I've sent a pupil to the purpose for stealing my pencil sharpener.  They got suspended.  I've sent a pupil to the purpose for pulling out an opened upward steal knife inward my class.  I was told that was non a punishable offense.  They were told to apologize.

I can't rely on my management to grip discipline.  More oftentimes than not, students are just told to apologize to their teacher.  I demand to brand a excogitation of my own.  I demand to direct keep a set of clear consequences that I mitt out consistently.  I'm also going to direct keep the author's advice in addition to pass the initiative of all few days of schoolhouse working on practicing procedures.  I acquire thus aggravated at my students when they don't human activity the way I await them to.  But, what if they genuinely don't know better?  Next year, they won't direct keep an excuse because nosotros volition exercise the proper way to produce things from the start.  I peculiarly demand to run on getting my students to transition betwixt activities chop-chop in addition to quietly.  I think that if I tin accomplish this, it volition to a greater extent than than brand upward for the few days nosotros pass practicing at the offset of the year.

My give-and-take for adjacent twelvemonth is going to live consistent.  I am going to strive to live consistent inward all that I do.  My classroom should live a house where students know what to expect.  I think this volition brand my twelvemonth in addition to their twelvemonth much to a greater extent than enjoyable.  Of course, they're going to loathe me at first, but I think they'll come upward around eventually.  The hardest affair volition live that my Algebra 2 students volition almost all live students that I initiative of all had inward Algebra 1 2 years ago.  So, they've already experienced the first-year instructor version of me.  Things are going to live different, in addition to it's going to live hard for me to non revert dorsum to my one-time ways because that's what I think my students volition await of me.

As I write this, I realize that I haven't really talked much virtually the actual book.  I'm assuming that most people reading this weblog are familiar alongside it.  The mass focuses on how to start the schoolhouse twelvemonth thus that students know precisely what you lot await of them in addition to precisely how you lot await them to behave.  It walks you lot step-by-step through how to write your ain set of shape rules in addition to a acre of written report excogitation alongside consequences in addition to rewards.

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