it's been awhile but since i last posted i started teaching 7th grade english. hi!
first of all, it's awesome because these kids unload their energy onto you right when you don't have anymore to give. second of all, they crack me up. third of all, teaching them about writing is making me write, so that's cool.
so 'readathon' is currently taking place around me at hip-height.
you can learn so much about society just by having a group of 7th graders bring in head lamps, candy, books and sheets/blankets for a 2-period block of fort-building and lights-off reading under tables.
it looks like burning man at whoville in here. little domed hurts are glowing from the inside, candy is being crunched and suspicious whisper-giggles are floating about.
there's the wannabe makeout corner with the smart, precocious kids we have to keep checking on.
there's the pairing off of two kids i now realize have a whole undercover romance going on.
there's the 3 reading-challenged kids who paired off together.
there's the two rebels who didn't build forts or bring lights and are now sitting next to each other in chairs with flashlights.
there's the loner who tried to claim all the existing blankets and pillows as his own and then reinvented with one blanket and a lot of duct-tape.
and there's the 12-going-on-65 smart kid who is hunched under a too-small desk reading steven jobs' biography (for the 3rd time) because we won't let him check the post-electoral vote recounts on abc news on his ipad. that's him in the picture.
