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Name: Whitney
Country: United States
State: Tennessee
Metro: Nashville
Birthday: 9/5/1985
Gender: Female
Interests: God, playing sports, violin, piano, reading, watching movies, listening to music, hanging with friends, messing with the computer, taking pictures with the digital camera, etc. Anything that keeps me active or thinking is good. Love ya all!
Occupation: Student
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AIM:  lairotsap85
ICQ:  119831813
Member Since:
10/7/2003
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| So I really should update....one day....not today...well sorta... What Whitney has to finish in the next few weeks before the semester ends... 1. Practicum- Teaching 5th grade Science from 7:45-11AM Monday-Friday 2. Irish Literature Colloquium Paper 3. Irish Literature Colloquium Presentation 4. Instructional Technology class iMovie 5. Social Studies plan for a 4 day unit with detailed lesson plans and materials. 6. University Orchestra concert 7. Middle Level Curriculum Interdisciplinary Unit 8. Middle Level Curriculum take home final The good news................ No finals for me during finals week....I think/ hope/ pray. | | |
| I just thought I'd share this with anyone who cares to read this journal. It is from the Jimmy Needham cd "Speak." It's a pretty awesome cd. He has a jazzy feel I think in a lot of his songs and there are definitely a few songs from the cd that sound Maroon 5-ish. Anyway, the final track on the album is this poem written by him that just seemed to hit me as I was listening to it the other day. Reading it probably doesn't do it justice, so if you happen to seem me, you can ask me to hear it until I can find a place to host background music for my xanga again since what I was using before ended when my parents moved.
Benediction
No one is good there is not even one
The front pages of papers of children raped by rapists
Iraqi torture chambers and we the blamed claim we're blameless
Wrong all
And swelling up inside of us there's the pride in us this arrogance
And our only line of defense is the sense that
I'm not half as bad as this friend of mine so I must be fine
We mean well don't we
Yet I've never seen good intentions set a man free from
Hurt all
This poor unfortunate soul
Filling a single void with toy after toy girl after boy
How boring this wasn't meant to be Humanity's life story
Warring with God saying what have you done for me
Bought all
Hanging out for six hours marred beyong recognition
In complete submission to the Father's will still
A proclamation was made louder than the loudest temptation
With more beauty than all His creation
More eternal than enternity more angelic than the heavenlies
It is done you are bought with blood accept rejoice
For freedom has come
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| Yes, I know it's hard to believe but I'm actually writing a real entry after a long period of time has passed. I've just had a lot to do and nothing much exciting has gone on in my life for a while other than school.
Let me just say that I absolutely love my practicum. I've completed my second week, but really my first week of actually interacting with the kids. I love them to death! They are so cute and I love how they just want to tell you their life story everytime you talk to them, although I have to keep them on track when I'm trying to teach a lesson. I thought I was going to be really nervous standing up in front of them and teaching but honestly it felt comfortable. It felt like God was giving me reassurance saying, "See? I told you this was my plan for you." I was a little nervous but it was the type of nerves that happens when you're just in a new experience, good nerves. Even though it was my first week teaching, my university supervisor came and observed me teaching. It was just the luck of the draw because in order for her to see every student by the end of the semester some people needed to be observed this week. It went well though. She really loved my lesson and wrote all good comments on my observation sheet. My mentoring teacher is awesome as well. She's not afraid to give me constructive criticism and basically lets me use any of her supplies as long as I'm using it to teach lessons. That makes it nice when I have to do things like bulletin boards for a portfolio and I'm a poor college student. I've enjoyed every minute of my practicum so far and I can't wait for next week.
Speaking of education...My new favorite place on campus is the Learning Resource Center (LRC). If you don't know what it is, probably the short way to explain it is a library for teachers. They have textbooks and basal sets (teacher manuals) for every textbook that is currently adopted in local school systems as well as tons and tons of childrens books videos, laptops, iPods, digital cameras, tape recorders, and many other pieces of technology for check out. It's pretty awesome and Brooke the librarian is the sweetest or any of the staff in the LRC. You can ask them for help or even just for trying to generate ideas for lessons. This morning I was there when the LRC opened and I was the only one in there and I found it funny Brooke asked me if I'd seen the latest Strong Bad e-mail because she and the other staff were watching it. This definitely isn't your typical library.
I'm hanging out in Cookevegas this weekend so if you're here give me a call on my cell. No one is here at the moment, but I think I'm going to enjoy just getting to chill out for a little bit on my own and maybe I'll actually get some work done. I need to figure out my schedule for next semester at some point since I have advisement soon. I also need to study for Praxis II. Praxis II consists of 4 parts that you must pass for certification and I'm going to take the first part (Reading Across the Curriculum) in the middle of November. I think each part is 2 hours and you can take 2 (maybe 3) in the same day, but I only feel prepared for one of the tests at the moment. You just have to pass them all before student teaching.
Well, I guess that's all for now. I think I'm going to go get something to eat. Maybe I'll write again before the weekend is over.
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| So I know I haven't written in a while and I know I said I'd redo the layout since mine was deleted with my comcast account, but I've been running around like crazy and just haven't had time. This entry is just short to say yes I'm alive and I will update...sometime. I've got a lot of stuff to do. I'm heading to Murfreesboro tonight after I finish classes because I want to get away from campus for a little bit. I think I'm just burning the candle at both ends this semester and it's burning me out. But I am enjoying my classes. I have to read a book and write a critique of it, put together a poetry presentation, write a 6-8 page paper on how music affects the brain, and give a demonstration lesson all by or on Monday. Maybe I'll update next week sometime. | | |
| This semester is busy, busy, busy so far but I think it'll slow down a
little once I get settled in my new classes. I'm loving every
minute of them so far, except for the fact that I think I'm going to
bomb my orchestra audition today. It's at 3:30 and I don't get
out of class until 3:25 (although it's right down the hall) and then I
have to be in class by 4:00 across campus. I think I might bomb
it just from shear nervousness trying to be on time...but hey I'm going
to try to think positive about it the rest of the day. And if I
don't do well...it's just a chair position and it shouldn't matter
where you sit in the orchestra because we all should be playing
together anyway. Less than one week and I'll be 21!
(Although honestly, I don't plan on doing anything that becomes legal
for me at 21.)
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