Day Two

On day two of substituting, I substituted for a language arts class. The students had a mini test to do and then the teacher didn't leave anything else for them. I was lucky enough that my sister had given me some Scholastics Scope magazine to keep them busy. I decided that whoever finished the test first, I would give them the magazine and they would choose which article we were going to do together as a class. Of course I didn't tell them this.

The Scholastics Scopes magazines had several different articles; one was called You Danger and it was about the dangerous things that young people are doing, recording and posting on YouTube. During the discussion with the students in regards to this article, they shared the dangerous things they have witnessed and the not so dangerous things they have done. All in all, it is quite interesting what kids are doing now. Things not so dangerous but simply dumb. One of the things they mentioned was the cinnamon challenge. The cinnamon challenge is a viral internet food challenge. The objective of the challenge is to film oneself swallowing a spoonful of ground cinnamon in under 60 seconds without drinking anything, then upload the video to the Internet. Another thing mentioned was setting a basketball on fire. Why would anyone want to do this? What satisfaction do they receive from doing this? I really, really don't know, but nonetheless, kids are doing this.

Another article was a play: A classic Sherlock Holmes story. It was fun to assign kids to be the casting manager, the stage manager and the theatrical manager. In the few minutes we had to put the play together,  we were able to go through Act I and Act II. It was fun to see how the students will be so involved and so enthusiastic. They really wanted to act.  

This teacher only had six periods so during the seventh period, I went to substitute for the teacher I will substituting for the next 12 days; intensive reading.