February 16, 2004
I'm officially in trouble. I was chosen to be a juror on a murder trial! My boards are due in less than a month, and the judge won't give me any sort of time frame for when the case could be over. I cannot get anything done during the day, and at night I'm exhausted from trying to focus and pay attention to the lawyers all day. I had to spend my entire weekend typing.
My goal now is to finish Entry 2, "Fostering Communications Development," in which I have to show a lesson focusing on communication or literacy. That's the one I have the videotape done for, but I have to pick only fifteen minutes of the videotape to send in and include a reflection on the videotape. I had to watch the tape over and over before I found the fifteen minutes that best captures the standards this entry focuses on.
You're given a suggested page length for each part of the entry. This entry has a maximum of thirteen pages -- and mine is only eleven pages. I'm going to give the paper to my mentor to see if she can see an area I can add to. I think eleven pages is too short -- if I could get on the twelfth page at least, I would feel better.
My mentor is wonderful. She reads, edits, and offers suggestions for the papers. I could not do this without her help!
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