Friday at the continuation high school. English class.
On Fridays they don't usually have much to do. This class was to make up various assignments that they had not completed during the week. So, I passed those out. Then, I managed to browbeat the three talkers into silence. And finally I sat back and monitored the class.
No one was doing any work.
They were seated. They were silent. And every head was turned towards the window.
There was a P.E. class outside. Playing dodgeball. Picture: big guys (they're juniors and seniors, and many were around six foot tall) using half-size multi-colored balls, and throwing them at each other.
Yeah, that's way more interesting than character analyses from To Kill a Mockingbird. At least they were silent...
Yep, I think I would have been drawn to the dodge ball game myself. But it was good that they were silent as they were watching :)
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Yeah, I figured silent was good. Considering how rare that is.
DeleteI would've made them all turn their desks to face the wall. Yeah, I'm mean like that.
ReplyDeleteI remember in high school, all the guys would play volleyball shirtless at the park down the street from the school. We'd drive by there after school just to check them out. I still think of that when I pass that volleyball net to this day! (It's always completely deserted when I drive by now, by the way.)
ReplyDeleteThe guys weren't shirtless. School rules and all...
DeleteDodge ball is way more interesting than literary analysis. I love to read but the second I have to do assignments it's snooze city.
ReplyDeleteClosing the shades is what I would have done. I'm like Alex...mean that way!
ReplyDeleteI didn't think of that. That would have eliminated that problem.
Deleteyou could have lifted them again once eg a page was completed as a kind of reward /behavior modification
Delete2 wishes- one for silence and one for work- at least one wish was granted
ReplyDeleteAnd considering how I wasn't expecting much work from them anyway...
DeleteAs much as I love a good book - and To Kill a Mockingbird is one of the best - I would have been staring out that window, too. I hated character analysis, and I am someone who loves to write. I'm not a teacher, just the mother of an adult son who would have thrived in school with a hands-on, movement intensive learning curriculum. Alana ramblinwitham.blogspot.com
ReplyDeleteAnd it was Friday. Of a half day. Before a three-day weekend.
DeleteThey might have been wishing they were outside playing, too. Spring...
ReplyDeleteYvonne
I'm sure they were.
DeleteUnderstandable, spring fever and the promise of summer break happening right outside the window.
ReplyDeleteOh anything to get out of working. They would stare at the ceiling if that meant not working
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