This shooting in Aurora, CO is feeding off Columbine.  Dave Cullen is being interviewed a lot as an authority.  I wonder how much useful comparison there really is between the events, especially the perpetrators.  From what I'm hearing... not so much except the military pre-meditated nature of the two.

So, I'm getting nervous about the first mid-term.  I'm feeling the pressure of not being able to move until just before classes begin, so I need to get a good idea of my classes before the work of moving begins.

So, first planning question: Do we want to have the kids complete the reading of Columbine by the first mid-term?  I think we should.  If so, we need the kids to read more than 20 pages per class.  The challenge is that we can't assign any other outside reading.  All Columbine and non-Columbine work has to be done within the class blocks.  And part of that is to make use of the summer reading book Black Ice.

We've got our challenges.  Let's start thinking early.