1. They know I mean business when I don’t want to hear anything else about the fight Joseph got into in the hallway. And when I tell them how upset I am over Joseph’s suspension, they know it and start to check each other when the subject comes up again. “Hey man, she doesn’t wanna hear that.”
2. Shecoriey (who started out the year with a dirty mouth and an inability to keep her mouth shut) calls out, “Y’all cuss too much!” “Y’all too loud!” This is the one class that actually attempts to curb their cussing in my classroom.
3. Their investment in my SAT “Word of the Day.” The class likes to see who can come up with the most sentences using the vocabulary word. Dernard comes in every day (including the days he doesn’t have me) to ask me what the word of the day is and use it in a sentence that exhibits his knowledge of the definition of the word. Do they do it for the jolly rancher I give them for it? Most likely. Are they learning new words and retaining them? Yes. Dernard used 2 of them correctly in his essay. WIN.
4. They break out into song when Al Green’s “Love and Happiness” starts playing.
5. They break out into dance when I play anything by Michael Jackson.
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