The class was silent.
Students were hunched over their desks writing on paper, looking in books, consulting planners.
I stood among them ready to help but surprised at the change that had overcome them.
Maybe 10 minutes before I had heard groans, complaints and the kind of whining you only get from students at the end of the year.
“Do we have to keep doing work!?”
“Can’t we just watch a movie!?”
“Ms. X- isn’t doing anything with her students!”
And then I dropped the bomb on them.
We had less than 3 weeks left in the school year. We had just finished our last text. In 8th grade that was “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee. In 7th grade it was “Silent to the Bone” by E.L. Konigsburg.
Now was the time…
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