Homecoming Week? A Good Week To Set Up "The Wall"

So this is the south wall of Room NE10.  It's not pretty, actually.  The blue painter's tape to post all of that stuff isn't really attractive.  On the other hand, it's very functional.  It's sticky, yet it's not hard to remove at the end of the year.  And the information on simple copy paper also isn't exactly picturesque. And finally, my guess is that students hardly pay attention to any of it, if at all.

No, the south wall isn't for them; it's for me.

All the information within the ugly blue painter's tape and simple white copy paper is a compilation of anything and everything I know about the SAT.  And here it is if you would like it.  Just click on the link and feel free to copy anything and everything you would like.  Use all of it or some of it, change it how you would like, and no special reference or credit is needed.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0Bw_Emy4D6vuwb1FmUXZKMjAxQ3c

Honestly, putting this wall is sort of like decorating a Christmas tree.  While I admit that in my family, it's my primary role to simply assemble our tree and get the lights on, the ornaments are like memories right?  Each ornament helps you to remember something about someone or sometime in your life.  Well, the south SAT wall is like that for me.

I send the information to the copier, print off all the simple copy sheets, and with each piece of painter's tape, I organize all the information into the three main testing areas that I work with - reading, writing and language, and the essay.  And as the copy sheets and painter tape goes up, I refresh my brain on the information on each sheet, reminding myself of the skills I need to focus on with the English III students. 

At the end of the year, I'll take the tape and copy sheets and information all down.  Admittedly, they don't go in a special tote box like our Christmas ornaments; in fact, it all makes it's way to the trash.  But the little "ornaments" will lay in wait in my Google drive folder in May through August while my brain and body refresh and recharge with a little summer vacation mixed in.  Come September, though, I'll break them out and refresh the memories all over again.

And if you would like to stop in sometime and visit the wall and talk about the SAT, let me know.  I'll get you a cup of coffee and we'll chat.  Maybe you can add some information for me, help me create another "ornament" to go on the wall next time.