Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Students Keep Advil in Business

Some interesting examples of student work. It definitely proves to me that I have a looooong road ahead of me. These are not even the beginning of all of them, but these are sufficient to provide a headache for you for the time being. (And, yes, these are all actual students of mine.)


The good news is that if she really is a "terorist," I doubt she's smart enough to actually pull it off.

(See answer to #2) Yes, everyone, I apparently taught my students the WWMS? rule for websites.

I've never really met anyone who is "color bling," but that might be interesting.


Whenever you become the subject of creative writing, it becomes dangerous. (By the way, this isn't really a limerick as the assignment asks, but it's at least interesting.)

Favorite line: "[...] it just comes and goes, like a rib on a plate." Um, what?


Yes, John Deer's father was always just pasting away during those formative years. It's a good thing the fumes from the adhesive didn't get to poor John and ruin his inventing powers.


This one isn't so much funny as sad. If you're going to hang a sign, perhaps getting it punctuated correctly could be a priority?


Yes, and "your" last in spelling!


I also often get into a "pissy mood" when people piss me off. I guess Jem and I have a lot in common.

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

The New School Year

Well, it's the beginning of my second year of teaching. Here's my newest experience.


Thursday, March 6, 2008

My personal crusade

If you're interested in the documentary, you can watch it online at:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/divided/etc/view.html

Saturday, March 1, 2008

I guess now I'm all...set

Honest to goodness, this is all my original and solo work to construct this baby. I'm pretty proud (and sore--I might secretly be 82 years old). The next step will be to paint it. That is, unless of course, I can figure out how to work palm trees into a western... I'll think on that.


Saturday, February 2, 2008

Can I force them to wear blinders and earplugs in public?

The first forensics tournament is officially under my belt. I got up at a quarter to five, and I have somehow managed to stay awake all the way until now at about 8:45 p.m. I must have developed super teacher powers...or insomnia...or both. Yeah, probably both. Unless insomnia IS a super teacher power...


Sunday, January 20, 2008

They never cease to amaze me

Well, first of all, I have to say that surviving my first semester as a teacher has been something of which I am particularly proud. Now that I am a couple weeks into my second, everything seems much easier (although, it's still difficult). Our high school is on a modified block schedule, which means that I have all of my students every day for 90 minutes. After a semester is over, it is as though they had an entire year's worth of a class. (and it feels like it, too) This is what I found on my whiteboard after the last day of school before Christmas:
In case you can't read it, it says, "We Love you Ms Miller. We will miss you, have fun with your new Kids" Now, ignoring the obvious capitalization and punctuation flaws, which still make me cringe after I spent a large amount of time explaining those rules, that's really sweet. It made me smile, and I was glad I had my camera with me.

Okay, here's my official new interesting occurrence of the year:

Saturday, December 15, 2007

We can't blame it all on public education...

I'm convinced, after being nearly finished with my first semester of teaching, that some of the stupidity demonstrated by students in the American public education system has less to do with poor schools and teachers and more to do with students spacing out all of the time. For example...