Hilarious

Today was awesome.

First off, I planned my whole day in the car ride it took to get to school (all of 6 minutes). I gave the kids a quiz and did a mini lesson on how to take proper notes. Because the kids have been wicked slow taking notes when I give presentations because they copy verbatim everything that is on the slide. It's bad, so we talked about abbreviations, efficiency in note taking (no extra information) and things like that.

We ended up playing a "note taking game" where it was a race to take legible notes that get all of the pertinent information in the fastest amount of time. The whole class got involved, it was a lot of fun and it made the day go by fast.

But we were also talking about what was most important in history in the students opinion. One guy was talking about Columbus, I asked him why he thought he was important.

"Well, if it wasn't for Columbus, none of us would be here"
right away another student, who's dad is the leading member of the native american tribe in the area says
"None of YOU would be here!!!"
it was HILARIOUS. the whole class started laughing, it was great.

then another guy said that he thought the French and Indian War was the most important. Most of the other football players in the class were making fun of him for picking such a random topic. But he explained his opinion, he backed it up well.
Then one of the football players who was making fun of him the most talked about his opinion. He said.

"Well I couldn't decide what one thing was most important in history, so I made a list of eight things ...

Declaration of Independence
Industrial Revolution
Printing Press
Treaty of Versailles
Seven Years War
Reformation
Fall of Roman Empire
Plymouth in 1620"

I then told Tyler that that was a good list, but asked him if he knew what another name for the Seven Years War was. Right away, Joe the one who thought the French and Indian War was most important, from the front of the class yells "Check it!"

So I said, "Tyler, the other name for the Seven Years War is the French and Indian War." Again hilarious.

So today was a good day and now class is going to start