About those EngageNY lessons. They are comprehensive. They are complicated. They seem really optimistic. And they seem really, really time-consuming. Oh, and I will be making tons and tons of copies.

I really have tried in the last few years to reduce the number of copies I make. We read out of books, we write on GoogleDocs, I don't do a lot of worksheets. Occasionally I print out articles that we are going to use as non-fiction to supplement fiction that we have read in class, but I don't do a whole lot of that. Using the copy machine is a hassle, and it just isn't environmentally friendly to be making a gazillion copies.

So, how many copies will I be making for my first two days of EngageNY for my sixth grade classes (approximately 90 students). Please don't start about how lucky I am to have only 90 students in my three sixth grade classes. Believe me, I know. I will be copying a three-page article and a page for a quick write for lesson one (Day 1) and a second hand-out for an exit ticket for lesson two (Day 2). My seventh graders will need two sheets copied for Day 1 and another copy for their exit ticket from Day 2. There is also a parent letter that needs to be copied (double sided English and Spanish). So for two days of instruction I will have copied. So that is 5x90=450 for sixth grade and 5x30-15 for 7th grade. That is 600 copies for the first two days of instruction. That does not include copies for activities in class. I don't know how this will work as I go on through the process, but I will keep you posted.