My paper-palooza

October 30, 2007 at 2:06 AM

I am in the middle of scanning articles for that most special class of mine. Evening at Pops had about 12 pages of usable material on the symphony, what it is like to be a performer, auditorium acoustics, etc. Then, nyphilkids.org had a nice 3 page history of the symphony. Students get to read each article, fill out a graphic organizer and write a summary paragraph of each article. We started our unit on the symphony last week; however, since they all still think listening excerpts ("are all we going to do is listen to MUSIC") = do whatever, I thought some good content writing would be in order. All self-directed. I really don't need an excessively bossy 15 yr old to say to me again "you can't shush me!" and "you're standing too close". Let's see if she shows up for principal's detention. I still have a bunch of papers to grade. Hmm, will the server be working tonight?
And now I am running out of paper. Will the copier work?

Dont etudes just seem all the more attractive now.
Back to the scanner!

From Pauline Lerner
Posted on October 30, 2007 at 6:15 AM

Every time I read your blog, I really feel for you. You have a very good approach to teaching which is wasted on most, if not all, of your students. Hang in there.

From Karen Allendoerfer
Posted on October 30, 2007 at 11:17 AM

A friend of mine used to work on the nyphil website. She became a full-time mom a few years ago and moved to NJ, so she doesn't do it anymore, but the basic design of the site and at least the ideas for many of the features are still hers. She'd get a kick out the fact that you're using it in class!

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