Posts Tagged: Students

Best compliment. ever.

Student, out of the blue, during second period: “Mr. Wells, do you remember when we were learning about poetry during our sophomore year?”

ave to admit, I’m not always the social peach I usually portray. I have my grumpy days, I have the days when I’ve got a hair-trigger… and yesterday was one of those days. I had not slept well the night before and I was fully prepared to hold the world and its occupants responsible for that.

I’m not sure what I found more interesting; was it that a student was trying to defend how the swastika is “cool” or that I could easily hear Jay-Z’s “Big Pimpin’” being blasted from her headphones.

In my vain attempt to do different things within my classroom, I’ve decided that I will be maing a website where students will be posting some of their work.  From there, it can be commented on, reviewed, and so on… that way it doesn’t neccesarily have to be the usually turn in and hand back [...]