Today, I was teaching a math class at
the high school and the students were working in groups on their
papers (except for the group of boys in the back tossing a
waterbottle around like a hacky sack). I had gotten distracted for
awhile talking to some students in the front of class about the evils
of slave trafficking in the USA, and I think some of the students
noticed that I was not paying attention to the rest of the class,
because halfway through class, I noticed that two boys had their
heads down on their desks and appeared to be asleep. At first I was
just going to ignore them and let them take a power nap, but then I
decided to have some fun. At this point, I said very loudly to the
whole class from the front of the room “Quiet down everyone, quiet
down” (class gets real quiet) “be courteous, we have a couple
students who are trying to take a nap and I don't want to wake them.”
The whole class started laughing and the two sleeping boys groggily
sat up and realized they were the butt of the joke.
Quotes of the day:
“Mr. Miller, you
have the perfect face, it is seriously perfectly symmetrical when you
smile.” -10th grade boy
“Are you Mormon?” -student
“Just because a person wears a tie does not mean they are Mormon” -Me addressing the entire class after the third time I had been asked if I was Mormon that day
