Walked into my combined junior / senior English class to find: 16 male faces and only 5 females. Shocking!Collaborating with the Health Community I usually get girls, lots and lots of girls. Girls with attitude. Girls gossiping. Girls needing the bathroom every 15 minutes. Girls with boy trouble, girl friend trouble, and parent trouble.
If I saw a boy, he was usually a man by the time I got hold of him. Last year's junior / senior mix had 10 girls and 4 men.
But this year they are boys. Sweet faced, gentle, responsive, courteous. No back biting. No gossip. Just lovely, even-tempered boys.
My planned lessons have gone out the window. I'm digging up sci-fi, Huck Finn, Poe, and war stories.
So far these sweethearts have been receptive to nursery rhymes, cartoon drawing, and actually learning the vocabulary words first time around.
I LOVE it!
2 comments:
Sounds like it's going to be a fun year. My classes of mostly boys are usually not so great!
Wonderful!
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