Today, my students officially decided that I was nerdy. As we were reading aloud the Aeneid in the original Latin, tears welled up in my eyes.
No, seriously. It was that beautiful.
Someone generously donated a 30 second commercial to our school. The commercial will be played during both the morning and evening news, for 5 months!
The problem was….they needed an alumn to be the “face” and “voiceover” for the commercial. And our boss chose me. I mean, when your boss asks you to do something, how can you not, right?
What’s even funnier about all this is that Jesse and I rewrote the script for the commercial just this last Monday night. We didn’t like the lines (some executive wrote them, I think? VERY cheesy), and I definitely didn’t feel comfortable reading them on camera.
As a result, there might be a mention of the “Good, True and Beautiful” in there somewhere 😉
Someday, I’ll probably see a clip of it. When I do, I’ll make sure to post it. For now, it’s just me.
Another very cool day teaching! To finish up our unit on Sir Thomas Mallory’s Morte D’ Arthur, we built castles and knocked them down!
First, Jesse and I brought a bunch of our old moving boxes to school. The boys and girls, on different teams, divided up the boxes one by one.
Next, each team arranged their boxes into a “castle”, the design of which was entirely up to them (the kids have been planning this for weeks. The Girls Team even “accidentally dropped” a “fake plan” of what their castle was going to look like in order to “trick” the boys!).
Their mission? To protect their victim– one of Gregory’s stuffed animals.
There are days when I love my job, and then there are days where I FREAKIN LOVVVEEEE my job. Yesterday was the latter.
My first year teaching at NCCS, I didn’t time our reading selections all that well. Case in point: we read the creepiest chapter of Wuthering Heights the WEEK before Christmas. Oops.
This year, I did better. We finished with The Christmas Carol right before Christmas. We also just finished Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar right before March (Ides of March, anyone?).
Yesterday was our planned dramatic enactment. We didn’t spend much class time even learning our lines or blocking, we had just barely finished the play. But I charged them to bring their togas so we could have some fun!
And fun we had.