School was back on again today. I had the intermediate kids do more multiplication and division, and then we started working on story problems. Story problems are difficult for them because their spoken english is so much better than their written english. This way, they'll practice their math and their english skills at the same time. I returned the order of operations tests to the advanced kids, and I think some of them were a little shocked at how poorly they did. We decided we'll review and re-test before moving on. Its the whole working from left to right thing that kills them...
After school I went back to sleep for about three hours. When I got up, I began drawing my friend Zach, copying a picture that I have of him from my grad open house. I spent two or three hours on his face and then had lunch. After lunch I spent another two hours on his hair (its curly), and got about 1/3 of the way done, if that. I finished the main part of Malcolm X, now I just have like thirty pages of epilogue to go. I thoroughly enjoyed it and highly recommend it to anyone who has not yet read it. Even though it was written almost fifty years ago, I find much of the content to still be quite relevant. Its amazing how much has changed and at the same time how much has stayed the same since that time.
Besides e-mailing and talking on Skype, that's all I've done today. I know it sounds pertty dull, but the drawing made today so much more interesting for me than yesteday was.
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