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Student: Ms. V, here's my homework from last week.
Me: I'm sorry you know my late work policy. I don't take anything from that week until after Friday.
Student: That's not fair! I left my book in here. You should've gotten my homework from it.
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Me: I have to take 10% off of this assignment because it's late now since you didn't put your name on it when you turned it in.
Student: You should just memorize all of our handwriting.
[HVD]
I mean why not, you are a teacher and don't put anytime in to teaching or grading papers, why not memorize their handwriting too?
I have some students that have been testing my patients lately. Nothing too out of the ordinary, they are "loners that like to be alone together" if that makes any sense. I don't plan to stereotype, but the goth or emo crowd. They just need some extra attention. I don't mind giving it to them, but sometimes they disrupt my class a bit too much. It is then that I bust out the paddle and say sit down shut up or I'm going old school. Just joshin on that last part, they really just get the look and a serious voice. [Paul D]
Beware: any type of technology grant your school receives could be more of a headache than the technology is worth! GHS has received two grants, one being the INAccess grant (through Indiana) and another one from the federal government. The INAccess grant is actually kind of nice because it allowed a window's operating system and decent computers. These, however, are not the ones I get in my classroom. We have the federal grant that required Acer computers with a Linux operating system. Oh yeah, and my desks are computer tables, so my students can stare at the screen (and play games) the entire hour. It's been a challenge for me, especially since students don't have to log on to get on the internet or play games. I think the biggest challenge is the fact that my computers never go away! Oh, and I'm the first teacher in the school to have an operating classroom with these computers… yay for being a first year teacher with completely new equiptment.
Miss G:We are doing a four-level grammar analysis today.
Student:Grammar is wack.
Miss G-Okay, lets do that one "Grammar is wack"-look for nouns. Go
Sometimes I make myself laugh more than anything…
This title has nothing to do with this post……..
After not complying with classroom activities which included reading silently for an extended period of time and constantly being a disruption for other students, I reprimanded a student to get him back on track. He proceeded to stare me down. I asked him to step outside, after which I found he had written the word "kill" in big bold letters across his desk. Only a year and a 3 months in and I'm already getting death threats! HIIOOOH!
Needless to say, he was written up. The referral was taken to the discipline administrator. The administrator was shown the desk. And I saw that student in class the next day….. hmmm
#1: Student walks in and hands Ms. V a note from her mother excusing her from the narrative project that was due that day. The note says, "We had a late night. She'll turn it in on Monday." Ms. V smirks and recalls the two weeks spent in class working on the project and tells the girl that she may turn it in on Monday for 60% of her score because that is the school's late work policy. The girl replies, "Just to let you know, you're going to get an angry call or e-mail from my mom about this."
#2: A seventh grader shows up to class and does not turn in a project that was assigned 3 weeks prior to that day. Said project was also mentioned every day in class after it was assigned. The student proceeds to throw a fit and throw things and slam doors and cry because he does not have the project completed despite the 3 weeks given to do the project and obviously this is somehow Ms. V's fault so clearly all this anger should be directed her way in the form of serious disrespect. Hmmm….
My freshman English class just finished doing their pro/con speeches. I had 12 out of 25 students give one. Most of these kids are in here for the second or third time, and they just decided to not give one. When it was their turn, they said, 'I am not giving one.' When I was in high school, no one in any of my classes would have even dreamed of just not doing something so significant. I have a junior in my freshman class, so this is his third time. He didn't give me a research paper or a speech, and he has a 32 percent in my class. He will be taking this class again as a senior if he doesn't drop out. Sometimes I wish that I could shake students. Maybe their missing assignments would rattle out of their brains.
Malapropism:
Answers:
When do scholars believe King Arthur lived if he existed?
the 1970s
Responses to Emily Dickinson's poem "I am Nobody"
1. How does the speaker feel about poetry?
good2.
How do you know?
read the poem
What the worst part of living in The Community in The Giver is…
"They don't even know where the babies come from, even if the babies are ugly they have to deal with it and suck it up"
Spellings:
If only our students spoke this way…
"I presume you've prepared new insults for today." -young Spock
"Affirmative." -other student
-Star Trek
During Accelerated Language Arts, I make my students leave during the passing period to go mingle with their peers (I have them for a block of 2 periods). This year, so many of my students went out in the hall to read instead of talk that I had to allow them to stay in the room.
Amazing.
"She is 15 and has assburgers"