Update Link: Watch Me Burn – Part 18

Happy Saturday! We’re in the home stretch of the school year. We finished our last full day on Thursday, and we’re into our half days. My eighth graders graduate Monday night, and then noon on Tuesday, I’m free! It’s bittersweet as I pack up my classroom because I know the French program I worked so hard to build isn’t going to last — they’re taking the foreign language teachers out of the classroom next year and putting them on carts. I can’t tell you how difficult it is to teach from a cart. You’re limited in your supplies and in your process. I know my fellow teachers know how much easier our lives are when we’re in our own rooms. I taught from a cart in 2020-21 during our hybrid year to limit student movement, and it was exhausting.  The program I wrote isn’t designed to be taught from a cart, so my heart breaks for my kiddos who genuinely loved French (there were a few!)

But I’m already switching focus to the new district — completing my new hire paperwork and doing some preliminary planning for next year. It’s so exciting to be able to expand my lessons and do more indepth work.

I’m writing more, of course. Since June 1, I’ve written 7 chapters which is more than I wrote in the entire month of May. I’m still hopeful to finish this draft by the end of June, but I haven’t done a chapter breakdown of Act 3 quite yet. I’ve been focusing on writing Act 2. The plan is to do that this week (I won’t have a choice — I’m scheduled to finish Act 2 on Sunday, lol.)

Please note that there will be no Flash Fiction next Saturday! I’m switching to the summer schedule this week, and Flash Fiction updates will be Monday, Wednesday, and Friday starting Monday, June 19.

Oh, and I know the site is still having some weird downtime — I’m going to contact Dreamhost and investigate it again later today. It’s frustrating — I never had these issues before the server changes in April. Please let me know if you’re having issues accessing the site!

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