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It’s been nearly a year since we first locked down. I started the Corona Chronicles for the Social Studies class I was teaching in March. I was sitting in my room, at my vanity, updating my students on my mindset and the world around us. I never would have thought ten months later I would be writing to update JDKC on the fact that I have tested positive for COVID-19.
So let's talk about my journey and how I got here...
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Can you believe it’s October already? The last time I updated was in April. I was teaching. I was thriving with teaching at home because I had a great teaching partner. I was miserable because there was no baseball (the World Series literally starts today). I was miserable because I couldn’t see my friends. This post is basically a recap of my summer and ends in a weird life choice that I made. You can judge me if you want, but remember it’s my life and I live with all the choices that I’ve made. I don’t regret those choices. I did some things this summer that made me genuinely happy and that’s a feeling I’ve been wanting for basically as long as I’ve been updating this blog. Besides, when you live in a pandemic you have to do anything that’s going to make you feel something other than dread.
I don't remember when in my senior year 1984 was assigned to be read. Was it summer reading? Did we have to read it for class, but never actually talk about it? No idea, because I didn't read it... I was in AP Lit my senior year of high school and I absolutely did not want to read 1984. Mostly because I had read Animal Farm in my sophomore AP World History class and decided then that I hated George Orwell and nothing he wrote was going to be interesting to me. (By the way, I am pretty sure it was summer reading and I somehow managed to pass that assignment because I loved The Things They Carried. And I had really great friends who told me about the book so I could fake it til I made it.) Well... Here we are 10 years later (almost exactly 10 years later, gross) and I have just downloaded 1984 on my kindle. I put it on my list of 25 books I had to read this year. I've been thinking about this damn book for like six years and I wanted to challenge myself to actually complete it. I never got past the first chapter (probably not even page 3) and as someone who will possibly need to teach it one day, I should probably finish the book. It's easy to "fake it til you make it" when you're working for a grade, it's not so easy to teach kids to read deeper into the meaning of the text if you yourself have never opened the book. This isn't Shakespeare, we can't figure it out as we go.
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