Tuesday. AP African-American Studies.
Welcome to April and the first day of the A to Z blogging challenge. When I say that the letter of the day sometimes just falls into my lap, this is what I mean. African-American Studies? Really?
Last week was a light week. I only had Wednesday scheduled. Monday's assignment popped up at 5 in the morning. Tuesday's popped up at about 7 PM the night before. Which was strange. Usually assignments pop up during the school day or in the middle of the night. But hey, I went to bed knowing I'd have a job the next day, so I was fine with it.
I got to the classroom. After turning on the lights, I headed for the teacher's podium. Nope. Headed back to his desk. Nope.
There was a knock on the door.
I made my way through the desks to the door to find a teacher waiting for me. She had a paper in her hand.
"I was just looking for that," I told her.
The day's lesson plans.
Teachers will sometimes email their plans to one of their teacher friends. Who will then print them out and bring them to us subs. We do love having the lesson plans.
It was going to be a pretty easy day. AP or advanced placement is a class students take to earn college credit. That is, they get the college credit if they pass the AP test at the beginning of May. The class of mostly seniors and some juniors had online work to complete. (It was phrased "independent projects".)
Okay, then.
For the second class of the day, I did my usual introduction, stating that maybe the teacher wasn't feeling well.
A student: "Jury duty".
Ah.
Suddenly the timing of the call the night before made sense.
In Los Angeles County, one must call in after 7 PM every night of the week one is assigned jury duty. One is told either, "call back tomorrow" or "report tomorrow". (I've done this a few times, so I'm familiar.)
While I never wish a teacher ill (or stuck on jury duty), I do appreciate having work for the day.
Have you ever served on a jury? Does African-American Studies sound like a class you would have liked to take in high school?
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