Here’s just a sampling of what happened in my classroom today:
A kid writing a poem started with “I wish I was a little bit taller, I wish I was a baller.”
Watching Casablanca, a girl blurted out, “Ilsa is a hooker!”
And in a matter of about 10 minutes, the conversation in AP followed this trajectory:
Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Bacon
Chocolate covered bacon
Geometry
State Math Test
No Child Left Behind
Hispanics moving from a race to an ethnicity
The differences between nationality, ethnicity, and race
No poem today…but for old times’ sake:
