So far...
I am slowly building up that demo Google classroom I told you about with all the assignments I will need to start the year. So far, I have:
The beginning of the year survey on Google Forms, which will take them through a deep dive into their relationship with reading, but it also has a page for interpersonal relationships and who they cannot work with in the class. I set up a Zapier zap to take their answers to the specific reading questions and create a Google Doc for each of them, which they can then use to reflect at the end of the year.
I set up the first full essay outline and assignment, which is for their book club books. These won’t happen until much later in the quarter, but the more I can set up now, the easier things will flow later.
For their independent reading, I can reuse the forms I made last spring for new book logs and conference requests. I also used a One-Pager from Teachers Pay Teachers, which I added text boxes to for kids to fill out when they finish their books. More on my independent reading/book club system in its own post later.
Plus the W.I.N W.I.D. assignment, biweekly check-ins, and collaborative notes from the previous post.
I also sat down and mapped out the first quarter. Now that I have a general plan for the first few months, I feel a lot better about what I’m facing. But I’m still super nervous, of course.
