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| If only I could send them a message through this artifact.... |
The image above - I assume it's above although it could easily be below or in between - is the cover of a booklet I found in the filing cabinet of my office. The booklet is titled "Teacher in Space" and was designed to be criteria for lessons that would be taught by the teacher going into orbit on the space shuttle Challenger. Yes, that Challenger. It references the mission in the future tense. It was a strange sensation, almost as if I could imagine the ignorant bliss of the people at the time completely unaware of the tragedy that was to befall them. No doubt the same could be said about any tragic event with memorabilia. I digress.
Today, I observed some more classes as well as nearly finished preparations for my classroom. I found out that I'll be teaching 2 classes of Biology, 1 class of Chem, and 2 classes of integrated Sciences (with one of the classes being of the accelerated format). I am looking forward to starting albeit a bit unnerved at the massive amount of work that lies ahead. I pray that the students prove to be cooperative.
Of note today, I discovered a number of relic items - many of which came from before my birthdate - and had the opportunity to sift through the now obsolete materials. Guide to test preparation from 1976? Tossed. Overhead projector from the 80s? Set aside for removal. Windows 95 NT Install Discs? Set aside to be locked with other random obsolete tech. Textbook about the evolving field of computer technologies from 1990 with a picture of what seems to be a PC with Windows 1 installed? Locked away in my office where it can't hurt anyone else anymore.
That sums up most of the day, looking forward to a new day of planning tomorrow!
-Kenneth
[EDIT]: Fixed the positioning of the picture and added caption.
