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	<title>Teaching The Outsiders (and more) &#187; Seventh Grade Behavior</title>
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		<title>A Moment of Insightful Self-Awareness (and Then It&#8217;s Gone)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 05:51:47 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Seventh Grade Behavior]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have one of those kids this year whom it&#8217;s really hard to get mad at because: 1) He&#8217;s funny, and 2) He just can&#8217;t help it. Really. When someone says something, and he reacts, you can almost see the marionette strings being yanked as he does one of those double-take head shakes like in the cartoons. He&#8217;s just thought of something to say&#8230;so out it comes. He has this almost stream of consciousness patter going sometimes, and it is as fascinating to watch and listen to as it is disruptive. Today I called on him for an answer, partly because I wanted to yank his strings and bring him back to reality, and partly because I could see that he had the right answer on his sheet. So I thought it was win-win. No dice, cheese slice. &#8220;Tyrell? How about number four?&#8221; &#8220;Umm. Ok. I got this one. Let&#8217;s see&#8230;(pretends to peruse paper carefully; even pretending to put in a monacle or something, and scrunching up his face in concentration and stroking his invisible goatee) Ok&#8230; That&#8217;s a compound sentence. That it is. Like a compound bow. Man, those things shoot far. I saw once&#8230;&#8221; &#8220;D&#8217;oh! Tyrell. That&#8217;s a simple [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Future of Space Travel</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 03:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mrC</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ok, so&#8230; Almost all of my seventh graders, for years now, have prefaced every story or new thought with the words, &#8220;OK, so&#8230;&#8221; Do yours do something like that or is it just my quirky crew? I&#8217;m back and I no longer hate computers. Just anti-virus software. I digress once again, and I haven&#8217;t even started. Now that I have a working &#8216;net connection again, I can interrupt my other various ramblings to bring you a classic seventh grade character, the astronaut. Astronauts (many formerly known as Space Cadets) are those students who spend much of their time away from the place we call Earth. Seventh grade is full of them. They&#8217;re the ones who finally splashdown, give a startled look around at everyone half done with something, and raise their hands to ask what. They&#8217;re the ones that ask the question you just answered. They&#8217;re the ones who can&#8217;t tell you that they&#8217;re confused because they aren&#8217;t actually there. This year I think I have the archetype. Let&#8217;s call her &#8220;Tami,&#8221; short for &#8220;Tamera,&#8221; which she hates. A couple of weeks ago, she got around to checking her grade online. That would be about three weeks from the end of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hi?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 05:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mrC</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Presenting the Book]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seventh Grade Behavior]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Midwife's Apprentice]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Day five. My computer just died, so I am blogging from my 99 dollah HP Touchpad. It&#8217;s hacked to be an Android tablet. I&#8217;m not really used to typing on these here touchscreen things. I hope I don&#8217;t end up on DamnYouAutocorrect.com. We&#8217;ve been finishing up The Midwife&#8217;s Apprentice. (I feel like I&#8217;m trying to imitate Hemingway with all these short, choppy sentences.) Today we&#8217;re at the end where Alyce knocks on the the midwife&#8217;s door and gets rejected. So I stop and ask&#8230; &#8220;Why? What does Jane want Alyce to say?&#8221; Now just couple of days ago we were at the part where Jane visits the inn, and pulls a Magister Reese while talking to Magister Reese, indirectly telling Alyce that she needed to learn to not give up. I had stopped then, and we made a big deal of it. So,silly me, I thought they were ready to show me they remembered from a whole two days ago. &#8220;I&#8217;m sorry?&#8221; &#8220;For what?&#8221; &#8220;Ummmmm&#8221; &#8220;To promise she won&#8217;t steal her mothers?&#8221; &#8220;Not bad&#8230;but no.&#8221; All day most of the wrong answers fell into those two categories, with one or two outliers like this gem, &#8220;I&#8217;m good at cleaning and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An E-Mail Only a MS Teacher Could Write</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 03:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mrC</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Seventh Grade Behavior]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[(to: my vice principal - 11/18/11) Joe, You know I was reluctant to let my room be the holding cell for your permanent lunch detention crew. At first things were pretty good, so I thought I was being a bit hasty in worrying so much, but in the last few days&#8230; There&#8217;s been some food on the floor. Mostly those large grapes from the cafeteria. A pizza crust Tuesday, but almost every day this week there has been a grape here and grape there. I think they&#8217;re mostly concentrated close to that stage area that I have by the front door. Two got squished on the floor, one got squished on a desk, and Jimmy N. ate one from under his desk today. He said it was tasty. I know, eww. But he was too quick for me and we all thought he was joking. Could you please have the wardens in charge start having the crims detail the room before the bell rings?  And please start opening the doors a bit before lunch ends to air the place out. It smelled like chicken yesterday. Other than that it&#8217;s been ok. Thanks a lot. mark]]></description>
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		<title>Election</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 02:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mrC</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[My boy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The boy seems to be liking middle school so far. The adjustment has been smooth, and he seems to have things under control and then some. Not like a lot of my kids. Wait a minute. I just mistyped kids as mids&#8230; hmmm, I might like that. Anyway, the boy seems to be acing middle school so&#8230; Wait again. His mom is over there making faces, and she&#8217;s all, &#8220;Duh.&#8221; &#8220;What?&#8221; &#8220;Let&#8217;s see. He has his dad for two periods, he has his 6th grade teacher for one period (yes, his 6th grade teacher last year is back here at the junior high, so we dialed him in), he has another friend of the family in whose pool he has swum for another period. So he already knows four of his six teachers. Plus his father makes sure he&#8217;s first in line for lunch and showed him the ins and outs with the lunch ladies&#8230;&#8221; (Aside: If my class before lunch is good, we always leave for lunch one minute early, because I like to be first in line. If they&#8217;re bad, only I leave for lunch. The rest of the yahoos sit until I have piled up my tray, [...]]]></description>
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