GIFT IDEAS!!!
The Hunger Games Trilogy- I read these last year and didn't like them as much as these past couple weeks when I've re-read them. Very good! Lots of action, love, rebellion against the man, and drama!
Travels with Charley- John Steinbeck. My favorite book of all time perhaps. I love Steinbeck's fiction works, but something about this book, non-fiction, really captured my attention and makes me want to roadtrip!
The Book Thief-Markus Zusak I read this book randomly because my friend had it with her on a trip to NOLA. It was the only book in the car, so I started reading and couldn't stop. It's set during the Holocaust in Germany and rather sad, but I love how the narrator is Death.
For teen girls:
Matched - Ally Condie. Sort of similar to The Giver in that there is a society in the future that controls everything the people do, including marriage. Girls will love the romance in this book. There really isn't much else, it's a pretty fluff book.
Any book by Sarah Dessen. I feel in love with her writing back in junior high, and now, my junior high girls check her books out more than other things I have on my shelf.
for boys:
Stormbreaker/Alex Rider chronicles: I've only read the first one, but it was great! There was lots of action and a great plot to follow along. I have plenty of girls in my classes that love this series as well.
that's all!
-thanagryteacher
ps: I apologized to the girl. She is so quiet that I can't tell if she forgave me or not. I swear I've only heard her talk once. maybe. (except not during the debate)
Thursday, December 15, 2011
where've you been?
I've been busy..ish
Mostly I haven't blogged in 15 days because the internet at my house is so slow that it won't upload the blogger site! So I have to blog from other places, like work...;)
Lately I've turned into a mean teacher. Like, making-kids-cry-mean-teacher. The first time it happened, about 2 weeks ago, omg that sounds so awful to say "first" time and it is, it was unintentional, and the boy took a flippant comment from me and turned it around to where I was insulting his family. It didn't help that he is having family problems. I apologized to the best that I could knowing that I had done wrong but not intentionally.
But yesterday, oh yesterday, I snapped at a girl for talking during a debate. The reason I was so mean to her was because during her debate, she barely said anything because she is extremely shy.
This was the comment I made to her: "Look Sally, you can't talk because you didn't talk during your turn, so you definitely don't get to talk now!"
Imagine that half-yelled in your face....it was bad. Technically she didn't cry, but omg I felt(and rightly so) like a complete bitch for saying that to her. I mean, I am a shy person myself!!In front of a class, I can talk all day, but around a group of peers, I barely make a peep.
So today I am going to beg her forgiveness and I pray pray pray she doesn't hate me all year.
No justification at all.
Right after that happened, I was walking to the restroom when a lovely group of 7 or 8 boys saw me and when I walked back down my hall (so my ass was towards them), they whistled. OH BOY. I was pissed. Seriously?Seriously? 13 year old children whistling at a grown woman?
I wasn't going to say anything until they whistled about 5 times (and the hall is looong, so I was a good 50 yards from them) and I turned around and marched all the way down that hall (I even heard a panicked whisper, "oh she's turning around!") and gave those fools a piece of my mind about treating ladies correctly and harassment. oh, sometimes, it's OK to be mean. Like then, well, they needed to be yelled at. That was stress relief!
tomorrow, book suggestions
-thaangryteacher
Mostly I haven't blogged in 15 days because the internet at my house is so slow that it won't upload the blogger site! So I have to blog from other places, like work...;)
Lately I've turned into a mean teacher. Like, making-kids-cry-mean-teacher. The first time it happened, about 2 weeks ago, omg that sounds so awful to say "first" time and it is, it was unintentional, and the boy took a flippant comment from me and turned it around to where I was insulting his family. It didn't help that he is having family problems. I apologized to the best that I could knowing that I had done wrong but not intentionally.
But yesterday, oh yesterday, I snapped at a girl for talking during a debate. The reason I was so mean to her was because during her debate, she barely said anything because she is extremely shy.
This was the comment I made to her: "Look Sally, you can't talk because you didn't talk during your turn, so you definitely don't get to talk now!"
Imagine that half-yelled in your face....it was bad. Technically she didn't cry, but omg I felt(and rightly so) like a complete bitch for saying that to her. I mean, I am a shy person myself!!In front of a class, I can talk all day, but around a group of peers, I barely make a peep.
So today I am going to beg her forgiveness and I pray pray pray she doesn't hate me all year.
No justification at all.
Right after that happened, I was walking to the restroom when a lovely group of 7 or 8 boys saw me and when I walked back down my hall (so my ass was towards them), they whistled. OH BOY. I was pissed. Seriously?Seriously? 13 year old children whistling at a grown woman?
I wasn't going to say anything until they whistled about 5 times (and the hall is looong, so I was a good 50 yards from them) and I turned around and marched all the way down that hall (I even heard a panicked whisper, "oh she's turning around!") and gave those fools a piece of my mind about treating ladies correctly and harassment. oh, sometimes, it's OK to be mean. Like then, well, they needed to be yelled at. That was stress relief!
tomorrow, book suggestions
-thaangryteacher
Thursday, December 1, 2011
doughnuts
I watch my "figure". I workout 6 days a week (and no this isn't a large number, think about how much we sit down a day and I only get <6 hours a week in? maybe you should workout 6 days a week)
But nothing beats a fresh warm glazed doughnut sitting helplessly in the teacher's lounge. Glazed all the way baby. And a cup of (decaf) coffee....my life is complete. When I lived abroad, I couldn't help but dream of doughnuts [and pancakes] and large coffees.
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-thaangryteacher
But nothing beats a fresh warm glazed doughnut sitting helplessly in the teacher's lounge. Glazed all the way baby. And a cup of (decaf) coffee....my life is complete. When I lived abroad, I couldn't help but dream of doughnuts [and pancakes] and large coffees.
-thaangryteacher
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