WWE Smackdown Game Plan

I'm taking names.

My husband and son are into WWE wrestling, and I am not. But I am taking a page out of their playbook and using some smackdown techniques in yearbook class.

First, we all made "poof books" to keep us organized and motivated. They are little 8-fold booklets you make from construction paper, and kids write both their goals and what they accomplished in them. I am going to grade weekly now in crunch time here at the end of the year, instead of monthly like the newspaper, and the poof books will be the basis of our individual "grade conferences."

Secondly, I am requiring 15 hours of overtime per person between now and the end of the school year. That way I can hold them accountable for doing the work BEFORE summer, where I can affect their grades. This is the most important time of the year: we have about 70 pages in progress and 40 more to go. They write their OT in their poofbooks, and I record it so I can drop their grades at the end of the year.

Thirdly, I am up and off the couch, even though yearbook meets right after lunch. I hope it's before lunch next year, and I hope my brain keeps handling my depression throughout this turbulent time.

I'm putting the smackdown on them, so we'll see if they get with the game plan or rebel.

That's my plan, and I'm sticking to it.

Ding ding ding.