outlines & essays

School is school. Midterms ended, we started the 3rd quarter, and the kids have been pretty good lately with the exception of my 9th period class. They get rowdier and rowdier despite anything I do and I made the mistake of taking them to the Writing Lab yesterday. Half of them don't even have their persuasive essay outlines completed but they still think they are able to type up a rough draft. They are basically geniuses. And I've decided that I'm not giving them any more class time to complete their outlines because they have had MORE than enough time to do so. I know this because a few select students (who always do well) have had their outlines done for three days now and are sitting there bored out of their minds.

My other classes have been pretty good, too. We're (well, THEY'RE) learning about transcendentalism so we've been reading some Emerson and Thoreau. They don't really GET it completely yet, though. I still have some time to work with them on it, so I'm not too worried. They are just confused about how someone could love nature so much.

Anyway, I'm going away overnight so I gotta get packed and stuff. Happy Weekend!