Past, present and future.
I feel so much better.
The boys brought their homework in this morning, and they had really tried hard. Mr Ringo and I stuck all of their pictures of important 20th century events along our timeline (there was a bit of a class rebellion about my inclusion of the Spice Girls is a significant 90's event... but no matter. I am teacher and what I say goes (see, girl power!!)...
The presentation on WWI was quite a success and as I showed the kids pictures of the graves in Flanders field and explained that every grave was a person with a mum and a dad and a family... a person who was perhaps not very much older than them, there was proper silence (respectful I like to think, rather than asleep or plotting or dead).
Now, all I have to do is learn the entire history of Islam for next week... Although I did persuade the maths guys to take my lesson on the fact that Muslims discovered the number 0... Something to do with dividing by 0 and discovering infinity....??? No matter, the eyelash batting in the staff room has ensured that it's very much not my problem. I am prepared to learn.
PS - So, that's the past and present bit of this entry... words fail me a bit on the future though... All I can say is: Bush? Gutted. Really.... I hve a very bad feeling about the next 4 years.
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(3.11.04 18:03) Daise, good call on the Spice Girls, like or loathe them they were a phenomena you couldnt escape at the time... |
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(3.11.04 18:11) ...No matter how hard you tried. |
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(3.11.04 18:13) GIRL POWER!!! |
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(3.11.04 18:16) Why would 14 year old boys not understand that? Could it be that I was winding them up in order to make them think?? Clever Miss Flower... One boy was foolish enough to object to Elvis though - a whole different kettle of fish! |
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(3.11.04 18:18) And why would elvis be in there? ;-) |
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(3.11.04 18:21) Tsk PJ. You'll be questioning Hitler, Churchill and Clara Bow next... |
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(3.11.04 18:22) Clara Bow? The infamous Jazz Baby? How could I ever question... |
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(3.11.04 18:22) ...how many had heard of her? |
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(3.11.04 18:25) PJ - I lightly skirted round the image by explaining that she was a 'flapper'... Amusingly some of the boys misheard this as 'slapper' which I'm fairly sure was actually true too - so, we all learnt something new. |
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(3.11.04 18:32) Your lessons sound like so much fun... Almost makes me want to learn again! |
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(4.11.04 09:40) I got a D for history, my worst grade of all. Reckon I could sit in for a year and do a retake? It's been pissing me off for years that D. |
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(4.11.04 20:23) Oh yes... there's a spare seat at the back... |