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So, I got a Latin teaching job!
Full time, at a really nice charter school in the Twin Cities. (The commute requires a transfer from train to bus, and it's rather longer than the one to Macalester was, but it's still perfectly doable.) I'm super excited about it, and likely to be--I mean, I don't post much here anyway, but even quieter for a while, on account of the tired. Especially since I had already signed up for one more semester of teaching that asynchronous online Women in Greece & Rome class as an adjunct for the fall, so I'll be juggling that along with having my first semester of teaching Actual Minors.
In my case, it'll be three sections of eighth graders (we'll be finishing up the core sequence of the Cambridge Latin course) and two of seniors (the Aeneid, for college credit, and a little Ovid at the end if we're all very lucky), so while that's five classes, it's not five different courses, more like two and a half (based on how the Cambridge stuff is divvied up). Which should help! I'll be assigned a mentor from the existing teachers to ask my plaintive questions at, there are three prep periods and a no-duty lunch... A lot of work but it's something I can do. I really believe that.
Also, I got to see my classroom! My desk is on the opposite side of the room from all the whiteboard space, so that is going to require I seriously reconsider how I run classes on a practical physical level, but there's a whole big set of windows along one wall! Looking out at vaguely green stuff! (The tops of trees from the building next door's patio area.) After teaching Latin to undergrads in windowless cramped basement rooms of the chemistry building more than once, I am delighted at the far more pleasing space I've been assigned for this. Especially since I'll be in there pretty much all day every weekday.
Anyway. It's exciting, as I said, and a great relief as well. And maybe now that my brain will be full of Latin-and-work again, instead of oppressed by the combination of summer heat and endless job hunting, I can get myself a bit more on track again with some other projects. The writing I'm doing for my next Choice of Games thing, for example. ("Choice of Games game" is probably what I should say, but it always feels odd to phrase it that way.) And turning my dissertation into a book. And that Attis article that's nearly finished and just needs the section on material culture fully fleshed out with some proper citations. And that whole article I've been wanting to write about the patterns in how young sex workers in Roman comedy express/explain their anxieties about their careers. And, yes, some fanfic I want to get back to, too.
I guess all my projects are writing projects, huh. Well. That's fine. I like words.
Full time, at a really nice charter school in the Twin Cities. (The commute requires a transfer from train to bus, and it's rather longer than the one to Macalester was, but it's still perfectly doable.) I'm super excited about it, and likely to be--I mean, I don't post much here anyway, but even quieter for a while, on account of the tired. Especially since I had already signed up for one more semester of teaching that asynchronous online Women in Greece & Rome class as an adjunct for the fall, so I'll be juggling that along with having my first semester of teaching Actual Minors.
In my case, it'll be three sections of eighth graders (we'll be finishing up the core sequence of the Cambridge Latin course) and two of seniors (the Aeneid, for college credit, and a little Ovid at the end if we're all very lucky), so while that's five classes, it's not five different courses, more like two and a half (based on how the Cambridge stuff is divvied up). Which should help! I'll be assigned a mentor from the existing teachers to ask my plaintive questions at, there are three prep periods and a no-duty lunch... A lot of work but it's something I can do. I really believe that.
Also, I got to see my classroom! My desk is on the opposite side of the room from all the whiteboard space, so that is going to require I seriously reconsider how I run classes on a practical physical level, but there's a whole big set of windows along one wall! Looking out at vaguely green stuff! (The tops of trees from the building next door's patio area.) After teaching Latin to undergrads in windowless cramped basement rooms of the chemistry building more than once, I am delighted at the far more pleasing space I've been assigned for this. Especially since I'll be in there pretty much all day every weekday.
Anyway. It's exciting, as I said, and a great relief as well. And maybe now that my brain will be full of Latin-and-work again, instead of oppressed by the combination of summer heat and endless job hunting, I can get myself a bit more on track again with some other projects. The writing I'm doing for my next Choice of Games thing, for example. ("Choice of Games game" is probably what I should say, but it always feels odd to phrase it that way.) And turning my dissertation into a book. And that Attis article that's nearly finished and just needs the section on material culture fully fleshed out with some proper citations. And that whole article I've been wanting to write about the patterns in how young sex workers in Roman comedy express/explain their anxieties about their careers. And, yes, some fanfic I want to get back to, too.
I guess all my projects are writing projects, huh. Well. That's fine. I like words.