Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Two More Days

We were watching Napolean Dynamite in one of my 6th grade classes. It was ridiculous. They think it's hilarious when any character gets hit- and my special ed kids are sitting there calling people retarded.
My 8th graders are watching Wall-E and throwing balls of crumpled-up-paper at each other. The irony of doing this while watching a movie about excessive trash-build-up is lost on them.
*sigh*

Vocabulary:
blow (...for the day) e.g. "You just blew me for the day." v. tr. to ruin someone's day. To irk someone to an extreme extent.

triflin': adj. Derived from a word meaning petty, the students use it to describe anything they see as cheap or unlikeable.

More vocabulary to come. like... freedom: abs. n. late may... when the year is up, and I don't have to hear, "Ms. Craven, why don't you just stay in Washington, fo real? You blowin' me!" any...more.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

these are my favorites...

to blast: eg: Mr. Davies! HOW YOU GONNA PUT ME ON BLAST LIKE THAT?!

trans: mr davies. why are you calling me out for the thing that i did wrong in front of so many people?

snake: eg: SNAKE!!! trans: one who tells somebody of another's wrong-doing.

nicole gelb said...

can i refer to you both as ms. craven and mr. davies, too? i love that. stop blowin me, ms. craven. miss you.

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