My students are writing manifestos this week, and they've been having a hard time wrapping their minds around the assignment. This morning, they were working on them in the computer lab, and I was walking around to offer support.
This one kid called me over and said, "Ms. Dahlke, I know how I want to do this, but I just don't know what I want to put in my introduction." And I was like, "Well, why don't you save your introduction for later. Maybe you'll know then?" He looked and me, sincerely surprised, and said, "You mean, I don't have to write my introduction first?" I didn't really say anything, just shook my head 'no.'
And he goes, "Ugh! I have so much to learn!"
2/12/2009
2/07/2009
HI-larious.
Almost makes me want to have a kid. So that I can drug her//him, videotape it, and post it on the Internets.
2/06/2009
2/04/2009
I am NOT tripping.
For whatever reason, I have developed an intense aversion to the word trippin. I'm NOT trippin.
Today in class, after we excerpted the Communist Manifesto, listened to John Lennon's "Imagine" and then to Pitbull and Nas's remix of that song, I asked the students to write a paragraph summarizing the overlapping main ideas in these songs and commenting on personal connections they could make with these main ideas. The second the word paragraph escaped my lips, it was greeted with a chorus of "Man, you trippin"s. (They're well able to write paragraphs in a few short minutes, and thoughtful ones at that. It's like my distaste for the word trippin is matched only by their distaste for the idea of writing. How do I get rid of that?) WTF.
I probably wouldn't have written a blog post about the word, though, if it hadn't been for an incident later that same class period in which I told a student doing math homework while Molly was giving directions to put it away. Her response? "Oh my GAWD! Why are you TRIPPIN?"
The thought occurred to me as I was taking a shower this evening, that it might be convenient and funny (for me) to create a poster that says, "I AM NOT TRIPPIN," that I could silently point to whenever a kid says it. Too much?
(That "Too much?" is not rhetorical. Seriously, mood-lightener or whack? Seeking feedback on this one.)
Today in class, after we excerpted the Communist Manifesto, listened to John Lennon's "Imagine" and then to Pitbull and Nas's remix of that song, I asked the students to write a paragraph summarizing the overlapping main ideas in these songs and commenting on personal connections they could make with these main ideas. The second the word paragraph escaped my lips, it was greeted with a chorus of "Man, you trippin"s. (They're well able to write paragraphs in a few short minutes, and thoughtful ones at that. It's like my distaste for the word trippin is matched only by their distaste for the idea of writing. How do I get rid of that?) WTF.
I probably wouldn't have written a blog post about the word, though, if it hadn't been for an incident later that same class period in which I told a student doing math homework while Molly was giving directions to put it away. Her response? "Oh my GAWD! Why are you TRIPPIN?"
The thought occurred to me as I was taking a shower this evening, that it might be convenient and funny (for me) to create a poster that says, "I AM NOT TRIPPIN," that I could silently point to whenever a kid says it. Too much?
(That "Too much?" is not rhetorical. Seriously, mood-lightener or whack? Seeking feedback on this one.)
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