School Musings and Silly Students

Whew. The weekend! The first whole week of teaching is done and I'm still here. Cool kids, mostly.

My sister asked me if I have "Harry Potter character types" in my classes this year. Yup! ;) A Hermione in each group (hand up EVERY time), a Ron (goofball, but well-meaning), and yes, the Marauders in the back of the room the last period of the day, all four of them. Sigh. And one of them is clearly being Sirius, as two girls on the opposite side of the room spent half an hour passing a note back and forth regarding how cute he was and wondering if he was available as a boyfriend. Then they dropped the note on the floor and I found it. *giggle* As I remember being in middle school, I will not tease them about it.

And I'm feeling somewhat better about if I'm connecting to them, as a few have taken to hanging out for the first few minutes of lunch to chat, or to show me a book they're reading. And no few of them grabbed fantasy (HP books or asked for suggestions - me: "Why yes, here's some Tamora Pierce fiction...") books at our jaunt to the library yesterday. So I stick my tongue out in the general direction of the older teacher who commented that "these kids" (for that, read Hispanic) didn't read fantasy and stuff, 'cause they "don't get it and aren't interested". And apparently she hasn't read all the sci-fi in the AP Spanish Literature classes in high school...

Of course, one of them asked for a scary book so he could scare his little sibling on a camping trip.