A Semi Desperate Plea

So today, I went and found out what my final 3rd job is going to be like. Essentially, I am the teacher for two hours in a one room school house from the old days. The cottage that I am working at is the Emergency Shelter cottage for girls in LA county that can not be placed in a treatment facility right away. One of the only stipulations is that they can not be suicidal or homicidal. So first off I think that these are kids that I have never worked with before, but I am up for the challenge. I thought that I was just going to be going in there and changing the curriculum, but still under someone who knows more about the program. I was told by the Clinical Director that as far as he is concerned for the next two years this is MY program. This is where I start to feel overwhelmed.

I now know what each of my three jobs consist of, but the interesting part is that each of the jobs individually could be a full time 40 hour/week job. And I have the honor of having all three. Yes, I know that I am working with someone for my liaison job, and I am only teaching two periods, and I am only at the college for 2 hours a day, but for those people who have not worked with me at a school before, I must say I am relentless in making my kids lives better, educational and otherwise.

The first thing I noticed at Gillette (the cottage) is that the girls sit facing the wall, absolutely quiet and work on packets. YUCK. As I told my dad earlier, that is all about to change. I didn't go to Southwestern and pay all that money to learn nothing. One of the downfalls is that I don't have very many resources to work with. In the Fall packets there is only english and math and obviously that made me a little upset being a history person, but we only have an outdated history workbook -- to basal texts or text books. I need resources!

So here comes my desperate plea...I need books! Just old books, that are laying around your house. Books that the girls can read, or I can glean educational information from, so they can do something other than sit facing the wall and work on boring, old worksheets. So if you feel that you can donate 1 book/magazine/music etc or 1oo or anything in between, let me know or let my parents know!

That is it for now.
Grace and Peace, and anxiously awaiting books!