1. Teachers gone crazy. Spring break, is that you?
2. Today, instead of teaching for three periods, I helped one students sew a skirt out of a men's dress shirt, while the rest of my students tried to quietly kill each other while my back was turned. The skirt was for a recycling project competition, and she betta win, that's all I'm saying. We turned the sleeves into a jaunty necktie bow and used all the leftovers for a pleated ruffle around the bottom edge. Then we slipped it onto my full-body mannequin, and the students named her Jacivie.
They're cute (and all still alive and accounted for).
3. I just want my kids to pass the graduation exam, please Lord? I made a deal with the coaches, since I knew if I offered study sessions after school, no one would come. So we agreed that all the athletes would come seventh period, normally my free time, and they would make up their weight-lifting after school. They compete on teams to get questions correct out of the study booklet, and the winning team gets candy!
Ain't no shame. I do what I have to do.
4. However, I would like my free time back. And I would like to quit sharing my candy. The test is next week. Graduation exam, is that you?
5. I had to attend a textbook expo last week. I felt like I was being punished for something I'd done wrong, although I got a lot of free things, except for the one book I wanted, on the Holocaust, which I may or may not have slipped into my free tote in my I've-listened-to-you-drone-on-for-six-hours-I'm-taking-this-book stupor. Cannot be held responsible.
It was the perfect introduction to teaching this book, so a big thank you to all the textbook reps out there.