today in my last class of the day i lost total control. and normally i don't do that - i am the kind of teacher students hate because i keep them doing things until the very last moment. I'm always telling them that it's my time. and so there we are discussing the beginnings of The Great Gatsby - and outside it's starting to rain, then with the clouds overhead and the rain beginning to fall it happened. the downfall of the class - outside students heard the sound of "the conch" now this class is one of my advanced English classes. so these are the kind of kids who really do want to be at school, and plan on going to college. so they hear this most odd sound of someone blowing into a giant shell and they start to yell - it's the conch !! it's the conch!!! we must go to the meeting !! they are calling for a meeting!!
so you might be wondering what are these strange children talking about. they are making a connection to lord of the flies that they all read last year as sophomores. i almost let them run down the way to the other classroom to prove that when you call a meeting people do show up. but then i thought better of it. but i sat there laughing my butt off thinking that here is this group of 30+ kids all wishing they could act out a book. i adore my little nerds. they do work so hard. so after that moment when i tried to go back to the book it was just too much. so for the last 10 min of class we just sat around and laughed. i do think it's moments like these that make my life so good. not many people get to laugh that hard in a cubicle. :)
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