Wk 10 - day 48

we were supposed to have a guest speaker today and moments before the beginning of 1st period, the speaker came to the classroom and told us that his wife had a flair up of a chronic medical condition. we told him that he didn't need to stay...that if he needed to leave we understood. he did leave and we scrambled around to figure out what to do. mrs. s had a quick idea...we had the students make an antibiotic poster. we talked about bad bacteria today and the role of antibiotics. i talked about the cultural difference in how people viewed medicine over in taiwan compared to the united states and how the over use of antibiotics in taiwan had made people immune to certain strands of bacteria...which is why SARS hit so hard. for having about 2 minutes to think of something to do...it went really well between the conversations/discussions and making the poster. the poster had to do with taking antibiotics and bacterial diseases. i'd do this lesson again.