We are at the weekend that separates the first quarter from the second. I have a ton of work to do, literally. I have all the students' notebooks to grade. It took five reusable grocery bags to get them all home. I have to get them graded before my surgery on Tuesday. Sigh, I don't know if I can do it but I'm certain taking time to write this isn't helping.

Last quarter I had the kids build an atlas of the island. The telephone book has maps of all the villages so all they had to do was start with that and identify 11 features with pictures and a paragraph or two. This quarter I am going to give them a list of things to go ut and find. They will have to add them to their atlas. I foresee them doing this exercise at least twice or maybe even three times between now and Christmas which is the end of the Guam History class.