Happy Valentine's Day

Hey Mr. [my name],

It's Hannah [last name]. um, last time i emailed you, you didn't respond but this is legit so i need for you to please answer this one. okay so my faith teacher, Mr. [name], is having our class do projects about people who are living a single vocation either temporarily or permanently. I'm like, 99% sure you're single.. Unless you really are dating Miss P.

This isn't supposed to be offensive, like i hope you don't take this weird? But I can't think of any famous single people that I feel like researching so I was hoping i could do my project on you? Don't worry it's nothing super creepy, I just need to ask you a few questions in school or something. PS you can obviously say no to being my project topic but i promise that if you say yes it's not going to be creepy/stalkerish or anything. okay that's it.

BYEEEEEEEEEEE :]

Hannah

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awesome

"if we can't spend money we don't have, why can the government?"

Movie is finally over. It was a great movie, but it got boring watching it 5 times a day. The students had to complete a series of 6 different homework assignments (that addressed 4-5 different learning styles). We took a quiz on the movie, and they had to complete an online evaluation that I made.

Now we've started to take notes again, and it surprisingly feels good. I like actually teaching, it's fun. I missed it. Right now we're covering the New Deal. We are going through a small list of all the alphabet agencies, the students are getting the major progress that was made and why our current recession is not as bad as back then because we have made these precautions (deposit insurance made the most sense to them).

The thing that the students, and I, could not seem to understand was deficit spending. I tried to explain, but really I had no idea ... and I told them that.

We'll see how the rest of the unit goes, but it is good to be actually teaching again.

Snow Day #5

Cinderella Man

Midterms are over and all graded. Sadly my CP1 class average was a 73 and the class average for my Honors class was a 78. A little low, it was hard test, but I could tell some kids didn't study. However, some kids did crush the test. Two girls got 95s.

But now that those are all done, my classes have gotten back into the swing of things. Right now we're in the middle of the Great Depression. We're now watching the movie "Cinderella Man"

This is going to take us a few days to get through (easy week for me) and then we'll finish off the notes and take a test.

what's this like number 11?

Snow Day.

Now the exams that were supposed to be taken today have been pushed back to Monday. I'm still leaving for that field trip sunday morning. Someone else is going to have to proctor my exam. Plus, final grades for the semester are due tuesday morning now. (I don't get back until tuesday night, awesome).

Midterms - Round 1

I have successfully proctored and graded three classes worth of midterms. So far, I have been disappointed with the grades. I know it was a hard test, but I don't think the students properly studied for it.

So as the grades have broken down so far:

___________Average___Class High_____Class Low__

Period B______72.3_______85.0________51.0_____

Period C _____ 61.0_______80.0________48.0_____

Period D _____ 60.1_______73.0________47.0_____

[passing is a 65]

My plan is to scale the test, by how much and all that I really don't know yet

Things you hear while on Cafeteria Duty

There's a freshman girl and guy talking in the back corner of the cafeteria right now. I'm currently on after-school cafeteria duty.

These freshmen honestly have no idea how loud they are.

"Like really, I probably have only date one guy who has been relatively close to me age. Like ya' know, I only like to date guys who have gone through puberty."

This is ridiculously awkward, and somewhat funny. Mostly because they have no idea that everyone (there are probably only 15 people here right now) can hear their whole conversation. A few students have already turned to look at me with awkward faces to see if I also heard the same conversation. I did.