8th-graders are just funnier than non-8th-graders.

So everyday in class, we've been using these graphic organizers to help us focus. Students use them to record our objective, their daily bell work, their notes, and their thoughts on why (or why not) this is important, why we're bothering to learn this stuff. They also have the option of writing me a quick note to keep me abreast (a word I could never use in my classroom) of what's going on with them. Here's a note I got today: