Wednesday, July 01, 2009

Estrogen

I need to use some only for a week but I don't want to hear parts are thinning! EWWWWWWWWWWWWWW... STOP IT NOW!

Today I'm subbing 10th grade. So far I've been called a fucking bitch. Sent a referral on a girl who said I can't see with all that shit on the board. I am getting hate from the whole class. I have 2 more hours to go. I was hoping I might get a 2nd class, but no same group all day.
I gave them vocabulary. We read a chapter of Lord of the Flies and reread it out loud. I made an outline for kids to do writing in preparation for an essay and they grown about anything.

They say, I already did the vocabulary, I'm not going to do it again, when there are different words.

We did a writing prompt. Now I'm going to have them write an introductory paragraph for a composition.

Teaching anything is a huge fight. The talk.... I finally got them quiet for the last part by calling security. Then they went to brunch, and as they and I both said, THANK GOODNESS!
I don't like their behavior and expect them to work. This time I'll try them in groups since sit and listen and be quiet didn't work. Once I explained what they had to do they kept asking even though it was on the board. These must be kids that flunked. There are a lot of kids that do nothing. Some are really low in reading too.

I've taught 10th grade English before. Once where I had them for 4 hrs. and once when I had 2 classes. One were kids I had before. The other was really hard. Once I let them have some flexibility they did fine. I had some drama students, one smart boy one dancer and a football player who plagerized entire essay's off the internet and then wanted to know how I knew.

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