I feel loved.
I miss being in the class room. I love teaching. And it's that time again to bring it on. Time for me to re-write my curriculum and get ready for the parks. I'm scheduled at three parks - one on the far south side, one in the middle of the south side and one in a latin community on the south west side. I also will be teaching lower and upper grades at three schools - 2 elementary schools and one high school. I am entering my fifth, I believe, year at South Shore School of Entrepreneurship. Hopefully I won't see any past students. Last year I taught one or two former students, because they had extra time, and one did not pass her Junior year and had to repeat. I love new blood and energy.
Today I have to attend an Open House at my old school, Kozminski, to meet and greet parents. I will hopefully be starting at all my schools by early October so I can at least get a check before Thanksgiving.
Normally, my park programs pay me every two weeks, but the school program, funded by the Poetry Center, pays on a different time schedule and it's waiting for that first check to hit you, 6 weeks later that bits you in the butt. But once you get it, everything is all groovy.
I am hoping to travel to Detroit in October. Also, working on my demo.
Decisions need to be made about which new poets I will add to my curriculum. I have so many poetry books aquired over the summer and I love to add more great poems to the list to be taught. I especially love to make sure that the high schoolers see conscious poetry on all levels.
The theme for the park program is "peace" and that will be good incorporate because of the times we live in and some of the communities I will be teaching in.
I have a lot of meetings next week, and then it's off to two days of park programming where I will work with 200-300 kids in workshops with other educators.
My time off laying in bed, chilling, watching Judge Mathis will be over. My summer vacation is almost over.
Any good ideas of poets I should add to the curriculum? Please let me know below in the commentary section.
God bless,
Mocha Sistah
