In addition to working as an AP English teacher in Southern California, I'm also a writer and filmmaker. This summer, I'm filming my first feature. It follows a day in the life of three teachers at a Southern California high school (like they say, write what you know). I'm drawing on ten years of classroom experience myself as I construct the screenplay, but I was hoping I could get some help here in the forum.
If you've got any funny exchanges you've had with students, I'd love to hear them. Here's a couple from my class:
ME Where's Julio?
STUDENT Man, that fool got shot.
ME He was shot?!
STUDENT Yeah, it was hellah funny. But it kinda sucked, too.
Or one of my favorites:
STUDENT Mr. S, you know how you're always talking to us about being better students and people and trying harder, and how you say we never listen?
ME Yeah?
STUDENT Why don't you just give up?
In addition, I'm also planning to film scenes that take place in the faculty lounge, where a colleague once remarked, "I swear to God, I'd give up half my salary if they'd just let me spank one student per semester." Any comments, observations, arguments, anything that was memorable to you from your experience in the classroom or in the faculty lounge would be a huge help to me.
If you can think of anything that might help, either add it here or email me at [email]EMAIL REMOVED - Send PM to This User Instead[/email].
We had dissected earthworms and afterwards we had to take our earthworm up to the teacher's desk and he would point to some pieces on the earthworm and we would have to tell him what they were (an oral quiz).
There is a fat piece on the earthworm called a "Clitellum." He pointed to this. I said "CLITORIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" He got a weird look on his face (I hadn't yet realized what I had said as I was very anxious about this oral quiz). He said, "no, tell, like you tell somebody something." Then I said, "Oh, Clitellum!" It wasn't until I went back to my desk that I realized what I had said. LOL
> > If you've got any funny exchanges you've had with students, > I'd love to hear them. Here's a couple from my class: >
I hope I am posting this on the right chatboard. I have been a teacher for 4 years now, and in that time have come across some pretty funny conversations in the classroom, and have heard some pretty hilarious ones from other teachers as well. I started Stuff My Students Said as a place where teachers can share their funny conversations and read others as a way to brighten their day, have a laugh, release some tension, or feel connected to other teachers.
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Fanny PhoenixHello Anthony! I think this is great idea :-) Fun is the best way to release tension. Sometimes you have to tell yourlself, "Take it easy, so many funny things in the world.
The mother of one of my students reported that the family had flown to Florida for a Disneyworld vacation. As they waited for their luggage a the airport, her PreK son pointd and exclaimed, "Mom! Florida is so cool! They have their own ninjas!" She turned to find three Muslim women standing nearby waiting for luggage as well!
• Your primary reason for failing to staying in touch with family and friends is that they don’t have Facebook acounts.
• You send a text massage your spouse who is in another room of the house.
• When you get up in the morning and go online to check your Facebook before getting your coffee.
• You pull up in your own driveway and use your cell phone to see if anyone is home to help you carry in the groceries.
• You accidentally enter your password on the microwave.
• Every commercial on television has a Website at the bottom of the screen.
• Leaving the house without your cell phone (which, by the way, you didn’t have the first 15 or 30 or 50 years of your life) is now a cause for panic and causes you turn around to go and get it.
• You haven’t played solitaire with real cards in years.
On 6/25/11, James wrote: > You know you're living in the future when... > > • Your primary reason for failing to staying in touch with > family and friends is that they don’t have Facebook acounts. > > • You send a text massage your spouse who is in another > room of the house. > > • When you get up in the morning and go online to check > your Facebook before getting your coffee. > > • You pull up in your own driveway and use your cell phone > to see if anyone is home to help you carry in the groceries. > > • You accidentally enter your password on the microwave. > > • Every commercial on television has a Website at the > bottom of the screen. > > • Leaving the house without your cell phone (which, by the > way, you didn’t have the first 15 or 30 or 50 years of your > life) is now a cause for panic and causes you turn around > to go and get it. > > • You haven’t played solitaire with real cards in years. >
We had dissected earthworms and afterwards we had to take our earthworm up to the teacher's desk and he would point to some pieces on the earthworm and we would have to tell him what they were (an oral quiz).
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