RaffleKing – Teaching The Outsiders (and more)

Pain., RaffleKing

I’m back, baby. (Though not officially.) Also: RaffleKing Jr.

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I think my sad, tragic tale of woe is nearly over. Recap: Last Sunday, a palm branch fell from 20 feet up (while I was trimming the tree), and impaled my left hand with three spikes. The pic below illustrates what I mean by spikes. That is not me, but those spikes are dead-ringers for […]

RaffleKing, Rerun, Seventh Grade Behavior, Stories of Seventh Grade

What’s a Rerun of a Flashback Called?

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I was trying to wait until I reached 100 posts before I did this. You know, like in television, your series used to have to reached 100 episodes before you could go into syndication ands reruns. But I figure with my bad paw, I have a bit of an excuse. (It’s getting much better, but […]

RaffleKing, Stories of Seventh Grade

Sometimes they’re actually listening!

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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 […]

CPS, RaffleKing, Seventh Grade Behavior

They killed the King!

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One of the reasons my previous attempt at blogging failed was that I was in the midst of another battle with our district IST department, and I spent too much time complaining about how they were interfering with my class, and how they…anyway, I’ll just make myself crabby again thinking about it. So I vowed […]

cartoons, CPS, RaffleKing, Teaching

Cartoon Fun II.

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A “typical” period in Mr. Coward’s class in “pictures” Part II. After they have completed the warm up, we go over it. I use my wireless slate to circle the correct answers on the screen and write hints. I can also flip the pen over, and use the built-in laser pointer to emphasize (or annoy). […]

CPS, Monsters on Maple Street, RaffleKing, Teaching, The Giver

“-isms” (Also: mucous)

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All this sleeping in this week is making me a little laggy… When we were talking about idiosyncrasies and -isms the other day, one of the kids brought up the fact that I have a lot of “Mr. Coward-isms.” Point well taken. Examples follow. (Some of them already have their own entries.) 1. MYOB – […]

RaffleKing, Random Featured Post, Seventh Grade Behavior, Stories of Seventh Grade, The Giver

“Do you love me?” (Also: Weird “Week”)

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Wotta “week.” Considering how tired I am, I can’t believe it was only a three-day week – for some reason we had a 4-day weekend for Veterans’ day. And I done clean forgot that I was supposed to give the “District Benchmark Test #1” (that’s a whole ‘nother post) by Friday. So we spent Wednesday […]

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Raffle King (Still) Rules.

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Someone brought a pomegranate as a offering for the RaffleKing. That is definitely a first. I told her that the King graciously accepts gratuities, but cannot promise results. “I just wanted him to have it.”

RaffleKing, Seventh Grade Behavior, Stories of Seventh Grade

Tom Sawyer Syndrome (flashback)

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“If he had been a great and wise philosopher, like the writer of this book, he would now have comprehended that Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and that Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.” That’s Mark Twain’s famous observation after Tom Sawyer has scammed the […]

Outside links, RaffleKing, Random Featured Post, Seventh Grade Behavior, Stories of Seventh Grade

Oh Raffle King, Oh Raffle King…

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(Sung — way off key, and sort of warbley — to the tune of “Oh Christmas Tree.”) I guess we need to talk about the King. On Wednesdays, after we go over the vocabulary homework, and discuss the words, I give them a vocabulary pretest. If they ace it (100%), they are exempt from the […]