Whirlwinds: Teaching Days and Apprentices

Yesterday was one of those teaching days where I had plans going into the day, with back up plans because I wasn't sure the original plans would work, and then I went with the original. Let me explain, in case it's useful:--I had planned to do peer editing with my English 101 class. I got rough drafts by e-mail, and then I couldn't open most of them, even when students tried to give me editing/access permissions. Grr. Some of the students sent in their rough drafts other ways, but I wasn't sure that everyone got the message.So I went into Monday thinking I'd do Wednesday's lesson (intros, conclusions, and transitions) yesterday if I didn't have the rough drafts. I was almost sure I was going to do that. But I printed the rough drafts that arrived over the week-end, and lo and behold, I had them all. So I shifted back to the original plan, and we did peer editing.--I hadn't done the speed writing with objects week 1 writing with my nonfiction writing class, and I thought I would do…