Just *little* overwhelmed

My goodness, so many things have happened in the last week!  I found out that I'll be teaching the Latino Culture class for the Boise State TRiO Upward Bound program and am putting together a curriculum for it, am getting ready to move, and accepted a long-term subbing position until the end of the school year at a local middle school.  At least now I'll have some consistency on a daily basis.  It's not Spanish, but I've subbed for the class a few times before and have a good relationship with the kids and other teachers that I'll be working with.  That's one less thing to worry about while I try to get this house sold and work on the curriculum for TWO classes!

Thought it's not until fall, I'm still trying to figure out how I want to go about my curriculum this fall.  At the heart of my curriculum will be my structures - what tools am I going to give my students to communicate?  I think I'm back to pulling my structures from the LICT books because they offer the most repetition and consistently build upon one another.  One of the reasons I love this book is because it uses the most common words and structures.  Moreover, the Pobre Ana series, also written by Blaine Ray, uses many of the same structures, so doing stories based on the LICT extended readers should enable students to read more and more of the Pobre Ana series.  Mostly, I just want my curriculum to be consistent and provide my students CI through repetition and spiraling!

That seems to be the direction I'm going... but I might have to put it on hold for a while I get this house ready to be sold and plan my Latino Culture class!

Finally, after logging into twitter simply to follow #manhunt yesterday for hours straight, I finally decided to get going with this Twitter thing - so good so far!  What an incredible thing technology is :)  Follow me there!