Day One: Jumping in with both feet

January 7th, 2009
8 hours

Arriving at my practicum I was a bit nervous. Lisa, my SLMS mentor, & I had met on numerous occasions previously. However, this was when the rubber met the road & I had to really do something. I had subbed in a middle school library within this district so I knew some of the ins & outs but nonetheless I was nervous.

Lisa welcomed me & showed me where to put my belongings as well as other needed details. We then went over a list of three possible projects (but not limited to only these) for me to work on that semester.

1. Catalog new books & then process for shelving
2. Put together poetry lessons & material ideas for teacher in preparation for the poet visit.
3. Put together a non-fiction bibliography & booktalks that represents the diversity of nonfiction.

This portion only took us about 1 hour or so. Then I was cut free to start project three... since I was presenting it the following week!!!!! Having never done a booktalk nor being quite sure what was within the collection I spent the remaining hours of my day reviewing books, pulling some for possible booktalking and creating a bibliography.

Well that and worrying endlessly.

8 of 100 hours completed