Here is a typical day of teaching English at Flint Academy, in pictures!
9:00 Arrive at Flint.
9:05 Look over the goals for the day.
9:10 Put copy work from Proverbs and poetry selections for memorization up on the board.
9:20 Call students in for homeroom Christian Studies. They copy verses from Proverbs in cursive, list things they are thankful for in their gratitude journals, discuss the verses, and never act silly!
9:40 Dismiss homeroom and prepare to read David Copperfield aloud to five classes in a row!
9:45 My senior class!
10:35 Coach Hallford interrupts my third period class for a few minutes to make everyone laugh.
10:39 We try very hard to get back to work and be serious.
11:25 Fourth period class recites O Captain! My Captain! with great feeling before we settle in to read.
12:10 A mass exodus to lunch!
12:15 I enjoy a few minutes at my desk in solitude.
12:20 They enjoy a battle of checkers. Ever since we read The Murders in the Rue Morgue by Edgar Allen Poe, which claims that skill at checkers is a better test of intellect than skill at chess, the checkers competitions here have been fierce.
1:05 Back to David Copperfield! Over five hundred pages in and we really will finish it before the school year is over, I promise!
1:55 My last English class of the day recites poetry with no enthusiasm whatsoever. They must be tired.
2:45 It's theater season at Flint! My costume crew has already accomplished a lot.
3:30 Time for chores.
3:45 Already prepared for a fresh day tomorrow.
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