As the bell rings, students around the room find their own seats. The chatting stops right around the same time as Mr. Becker closes the door to his classroom, looking forward to another day with his favorite class. Talk springs up again as, quietly, Mr. Becker checks the cosmology homework assigned to his students. Finding everything to be in order, he returns to the front of the room. All is silent as the students wait for their teacher to do what he gets paid for- teach. Shortly, a single voice breaks that silence. This voice belongs to the teacher, and, as he gets paid to do, he teaches. As Mr. Becker lectures, he begins to draw questions from the otherwise lethargic students. Soon, they are open, awake (for the most part), and asking questions. The students receive an assignment, but are told to not worry about it- the due date is so far away their teacher doesn't even think they need to know what it is yet. He pleads with the students to write clearly, and to take their time writing. This is to let the writing styles and voices of the students show themselves. Then, Mr. Becker launches into a spiel about the six traits of writing, reviewing for anyone who managed to forget what that is. With ten minutes to go, he runs out of lesson material, so out come the character cards. In the last ten minutes of class, the students learn about working in an "assisted living facility", or old people's home, as well as showing their love of Microsoft and the Xbox 360.
As I walked Into class today I was informed that I have the ever so wonderful task of scribe notes...yay. As I remove my matrix from Friday, Taylor moans and groans about always having to do them and she exclaims that they are seemingly pointless. We began class as any other with students scrambling to show mr.Becker thier comparison matrices, who interestingly enough is surprised at my knowing if the word matrices. Felix abruptly turns around as Becker marks down my points for the homework and tell me that since he is not mentioned in my scribe notes they suck... I guess they don't suck anymore? Mr.Becker, after checking homework reviewed the weekends myth and homework. Meanwhile nathan forgot yet another paper from near the door.... It's the walk of shame for him. On a side note I notice Rachel likes rockin bare feet in mythology class, true story. After we slightly reviewed the myth we jumped right into discussion over our comparison charts. I say charts because I feel I've used the word matrices too many times. Malcolm challenged Mr.Becker once more with stating that brahmas emergence from the navel if shiva can also be seen as a birth metaphor along with the "golden egg". Upon completion of our discussion I came to the conclusion that if I ever have any questions about our myths that I will go to Malcolm for guidance. Becker than assigns us a paper, we are needless to say, less than enthused. The paper is that of comparing and contrasting two or more of the myths and legends we have read about. After a quick over view of what's expected of us there was a lengthy discussion about stars. The class as a whole seemed a bit confused on beckers grading scale. It's simple people; 0- you suck 1- you suck a little less 2- your ight 3- your good 4- your awesome 4*- you should teach this class After the mass confusion about stars and numbers Mr.Becker tested himself on how well he remembered the classes about us cards.... He failed. He then let us loose into mass chaos that was individual chatter for a good 10-12 minutes.
As the bell rings, students around the room find their own seats. The chatting stops right around the same time as Mr. Becker closes the door to his classroom, looking forward to another day with his favorite class. Talk springs up again as, quietly, Mr. Becker checks the cosmology homework assigned to his students. Finding everything to be in order, he returns to the front of the room. All is silent as the students wait for their teacher to do what he gets paid for- teach. Shortly, a single voice breaks that silence. This voice belongs to the teacher, and, as he gets paid to do, he teaches. As Mr. Becker lectures, he begins to draw questions from the otherwise lethargic students. Soon, they are open, awake (for the most part), and asking questions. The students receive an assignment, but are told to not worry about it- the due date is so far away their teacher doesn't even think they need to know what it is yet. He pleads with the students to write clearly, and to take their time writing. This is to let the writing styles and voices of the students show themselves. Then, Mr. Becker launches into a spiel about the six traits of writing, reviewing for anyone who managed to forget what that is. With ten minutes to go, he runs out of lesson material, so out come the character cards. In the last ten minutes of class, the students learn about working in an "assisted living facility", or old people's home, as well as showing their love of Microsoft and the Xbox 360.
ReplyDeleteAs I walked Into class today I was informed that I have the ever so wonderful task of scribe notes...yay.
ReplyDeleteAs I remove my matrix from Friday, Taylor moans and groans about always having to do them and she exclaims that they are seemingly pointless.
We began class as any other with students scrambling to show mr.Becker thier comparison matrices, who interestingly enough is surprised at my knowing if the word matrices.
Felix abruptly turns around as Becker marks down my points for the homework and tell me that since he is not mentioned in my scribe notes they suck... I guess they don't suck anymore?
Mr.Becker, after checking homework reviewed the weekends myth and homework. Meanwhile nathan forgot yet another paper from near the door.... It's the walk of shame for him.
On a side note I notice Rachel likes rockin bare feet in mythology class, true story.
After we slightly reviewed the myth we jumped right into discussion over our comparison charts. I say charts because I feel I've used the word matrices too many times. Malcolm challenged Mr.Becker once more with stating that brahmas emergence from the navel if shiva can also be seen as a birth metaphor along with the "golden egg". Upon completion of our discussion I came to the conclusion that if I ever have any questions about our myths that I will go to Malcolm for guidance.
Becker than assigns us a paper, we are needless to say, less than enthused. The paper is that of comparing and contrasting two or more of the myths and legends we have read about. After a quick over view of what's expected of us there was a lengthy discussion about stars. The class as a whole seemed a bit confused on beckers grading scale. It's simple people;
0- you suck
1- you suck a little less
2- your ight
3- your good
4- your awesome
4*- you should teach this class
After the mass confusion about stars and numbers Mr.Becker tested himself on how well he remembered the classes about us cards.... He failed.
He then let us loose into mass chaos that was individual chatter for a good 10-12 minutes.