Wednesday is vocabulary day; going over the homework, explaining and exampling, then the pretest. And that means the Raffle King. He decides whether or not they get to use the “cheat sheet” (the corrected homework sentences) on the pretest. As I have said before, it doesn’t really help them (it tends to make them second guess themselves), but they really like having it. And since a perfect score on the pretest means an exemption from that part of the real test, they want every edge they can get. Today, I told the friendly class that the Raffle King had been crabby all morning, and had been saying no to all classes so far. So they pulled out all the stops, and even resorted to actually using some of the vocabulary words we had just gone over. Really. It was pretty boss to see how many they crammed into that 10 second countdown. 10 – 9- “Please don’t be INDIFFERENT to us!” (Nice one, I have to say.) 8 – 7- “C’mon, I promise I won’t be SULLEN to Mr. Coward when I’m in eighth grade.” (In explaining that word, I always talk about how in eighth grade, all my former
That reminds me of those great SNL skits about the Sofa King. You know, how the prices are "Sofa King" low, the deals are "Sofa King" great, etc. (You obviously have to say those phrases out loud to get the joke.)