Oh boy!

Oh boy!

What a day! The class I'm in has not had a teacher for 6 weeks and has
had subs come in and out the whole time. Now its my turn to teach them
something. I don't have any lesson plans, nor do I have a class roll.
I have a stack of worksheets that a teacher just brought in, and my
Barack Obama book "the audacity of hope" about politics in America. So
let's make a fun class day that would teach them something, shall we?
Ok, first let's get a warm-up activity and get them calmed down. I
wrote on the board- " Writing Assignment: How can we improve this
school?" they didn't like that one... Strike 1. How about "write about
your favorite musical artist" that one got them going. After they
wrote about young jeezy or Lil' Boosie, Lil Wayne or Alicia Keyes, I
took the papers up and read each person's favorite artist (not the
whole paper). Then the class tried to guess whose paper it was. After
that we worked on the adverb worksheets. Pretty boring, but they hung
in there. Then I read some of Obama's book and taught them about
government, bills, laws, the senate, etc. Then I was saved by the
bell. Its funny, teachers (especially subs) look forward to getting
out of class just as much (if not more) than the students- shhh its a
secret ;-)

My second class tried to get to me but I wouldn't let them. Besides
the relentless cussing and yelling, here are some good one-liners I
got: "your wife is going to leave you for a black man" "you look like
the 26 year old virgin" "are you from Germany? You talk funny and
proper " "you look like Mr. Rogers" I also got justin timberlake. One
kid really wanted me to hit him so he could pop me in the jaw.
Needless to say I knocked him to the floor for being so stupid ( yeah,
right).

Here's another surprising trend, the students don't pass notes
anymore- that's old school. These kids simply text each other during
class- and if you tell them to put the phones up- "Ooo you just made
me mad. I'm not gonna cooperate wit you no more" Oh boy! Gotta love em.

PS- they put another sub in here to help me, but he just sat at the
desk the whole time. I had him to over the adverb sheet 2nd period and
the class was so disrespectful he quit. He started getting visibly
agitated and they saw that and tried to make him mad. They can smell
fear. And anger. I felt sorry for him- the other students probably
give him a hard time because of that.