September 2007 - Posts
First, "puht" boy got 5 days lunch detention for doing no work in my class. He still won't do any work, though. I checked on him in detention today. He is still trying to do his essay. A five hour five paragraph essay. He is still on the first paragraph.
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"It sucks to be me" girl asked today if she could split her detention into two days. I said no. She served it tonight and was very well behaved. In my detention, students have to spend an hour writing an essay explaining what they did and an apology to
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I didn't want to teach pre-advanced placement English to freshmen this year. I wanted to have all the same students I had last year. When the new lady wanted to switch preps, I was not thrilled. However, I agreed to it because I was a 1st year teacher
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I had another student today having an attitude attack. I teach a young man that attends the infamous 8th period class. He has turned in no work in three weeks. His average is 0. Yesterday, they had to write a 5 paragraph essay for 50 minutes. He wrote
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Today, the "it sucks to be me" girl decided to talk to her friend two rows away while I was giving instructions on how I want their emails to look like. I told her three --got that three!!!- times to stop talking. She was telling some story in Spanish
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O.K. the year is going well except for one class--8th period Sophomore English. I had Jerry removed from it and it is better. Except now they are all failing!!! The students in there will not do any homework. They do not want to listen. They are very
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Sorry I haven't posted for a whole week. Life has gotten away from me this week. I would just like one day--one day!--that everything is caught up. Housework, lesson plans, laundry, grading, reading--all caught up. I need some air. Miss A over at Confessions
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I got a lot of questions about what a brain eraser is. I got these from a company called For Teachers Only . I had trouble last year with students having no writing utensils. This would drive me crazy because the students would waste 5 minutes asking
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The past few days classroom management wise have been going great. No real problems. I'm amazed after I struggled so much with it last year. The only real problem I have is getting the kids to pay attention to me. That I solve my timing all the time I
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