Okay, I really want to know who someone is. Really. When I work in one of the two middle schools in this one school district, I am constantly mistakenly called Mr. Foote. It’s usually the students, but about a month ago a teacher called me by that name too. Yes, today I was mistaken for him again. No, that isn’t my name even if I do supposedly look like him, or he like me, or- oh, you know what I mean. 🙂 Will it really be like looking in a mirror when I finally corner him? You know, I will really be depressed if this guy turns out to be a retired, elderly gentleman as many of the guy subs are. Well, women too, but obviously the “gentleman” part doesn’t apply to them. 😀
Today I re-subbed for a class. That is, I had subbed for this teacher before (apparently our mystery sub did as well, sometime since my last time). It was just simple 7th grade science with a literacy class thrown in. Oh, a tutorial class with seven students. I hope this means most students are in academic courses since tutorial is more of a study hall- no learning there. For literacy they just worked on a book (S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders) and group packet, while in science- drum roll please- a video. And a comic strip project where they are making a comic strip about the states of matter. The video was about just that, the four states- solid, liquid, gas, plasma. There was a video quiz at the end that for some reason the kids thought was hilarious because it was fill-in-the-blank, but instead of saying “blank” when they read the question (“The blank state has both definite shape and definite volume”) it played a long tone (“The bee-e-e-e-e-e-ep state has both definite shape and definite volume”). I gather they were imagining foul language being bleeped out.
By the way, they may say “there ain’t no free lunch” but there was for me today. The PTO supplied sandwiches and sandwich sides for us because of teacher appreciation week. On Friday they will have a baked potato bar. Yum. I will be there for 6th grade. Now I just have to worry about tomorrow.
I remember reading The Outsiders in jr. high also.
I had that sort of identity crisis in high school – everyone would call me Emily and say I looked like her. I finally met her and didn’t see the resemblence… She was a very pretty girl though, so I took it as a compliment.
There you go. Maybe he’s a little Tom Cruise-ish. 😀 Of course I look nothing like Tom Cruise, so maybe not.