Home stretch...

I am sitting here in the computer lab two weeks away from finishing up all my course work for the first semester of the credential program. I have a whole bunch of stuff due as well including a unit plan for social studies. This is probably the most daunting immediate task facing me as I make my way towards becoming a teacher. I think I can handle it though, I am going to create a unit on Imperialism and Africa. Students will study the experiences of Africans and their interactions with European colonizers. They will learn how Africans were treated and how they lived before and what changed when Europeans arrived. The hard part of all this is addressing content standards for the state of California. I feel like standards are not stressed as hard at Tam where I am observing/subbing as opposed to schools that I am likely to work at in the future. Many schools have to focus solely on the standards and have pacing guides dictating when they should be covering what so that students learn everything that is covered on the STAR tests. I wish that high school history curriculum could be more flexible as to allow for my in depth discovery of history. oh well.
I finished up training for fire crew and will be going on call on 5/18, so hopefully there are some forest fires. I am not sure when I will be going out and I may have some dead time on my hands when school is out. I can still sub and hopefully make a bit of cash. Gotta get back to work...