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This morning's Theatre History class brought a special little teacher-joy-moment when one of the students related some "real life" drama: this morning on the radio he'd heard about an altercation between two roommates who were fighting over the last English Muffin. The "joy-moment"? That's all he had to say, grinning broadly, and the rest of the class burst out laughing.
Trust me, that's a huge payoff for a drama teacher who completed a unit that included The Importance of Being Earnest (which could have been subtitled The Importance of Constantly Eating and Making Sure You Get the Last Muffin).
We'll be finishing up the year with Six Characters in Search of an Author, in which the characters are real and the actors are the audience while the audience watches the actors trying to portray the characters and the characters mock them. Heads are already exploding all over the classroom and nervous tremors are starting up - although that last was nicely alleviated through the "earthquake" drill we also had this morning... Isn't there supposed to be a better way to protect yourself during an earthquake now than the "climb under the desk" method? We'll also do one Eugene O'Neill play (I think it'll be A Long Day's Journey Into Night, since I do have the Katherine Hepburn version on DVD) and a quick unit on Oriental Theatre... and wrap it all up with a comprehensive final. Yep, a test on EVERYTHING THEY HAVE LEARNED THIS YEAR.
I freely admit, I am evil. Bwah ha haaaaa! (But not stupid - the final will be the week BEFORE the end of school, and the last few days of class will involve attendance points, trivia games, and movie challenges. And treats.)
I'm still recuperating from Conference Weekend, and looking forward with all my heart to the day (wait, "looking forward with all my heart"? What a silly image) when I'll be able to actually focus on all four sessions and hear more than just random snippets. Relatively speaking, it was a pretty mellow ticketing experience - we only had a few criers, a scarce handful of extremely angry people, and just one certifiably crazy lady (she actually was scary). One woman did threaten to leave the Church if we didn't give her tickets, but I just opened my eyes wide and pretended I only spoke Spanish. Nice to see it works both ways!
Watch out for falling turtles (...clutching english muffins),
Cyd
Days I've gone without chocolate: (groan)
Days I've exercised recently: (groan again, but ask me tomorrow)
Days my supervisor has spoken to me: 1 out of 12
Percentange completed of my five-year-old Conference afghan: 85%
5 comments:
I am so happy when I see a new post on your blog, because I am always prepared to be amused! Mission accomplished once again. Loved the muffin story! And yes you are one of those teachers I would dread....although I must say I would like you because you are doing the final a week before finals week! Bonus points for that one! I still wish I had your job though...I think that's the sociologist in me talking!
I should have asked this a long time ago ... where are you teaching?
I love the muffins, and the massive amounts of food overall!, in "Earnest." What a great show...
it's 12:22am and I should be in bed, but I had to catch up on blogs first! I have to say, I can sleep well after reading your "eyes wide open I only speak spanish" twist...you are a talent darling...a talent!
Comprehensive, eh? Your poor students.
Maybe you could bring muffins for them.
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