It’s Thanksgiving Week! November is flying by; Halloween Week (and Halloween!) seem like yesterday. Yesterday was a crisp, autumnal day, a brief respite of warmth before cold weather returned to South Carolina this morning.
As a teacher, one of my favorite “weeks” of the school year is this one. I put “weeks” in quotation marks because, from a teaching perspective, this isn’t truly a “week,” or even a “short week” (four days, such as the Labor Day holiday early in the academic year). Instead, it’s two days of either cramming in tests and material, or of laconically drifting into the glorious Thanksgiving Break.
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