things heard around my classroom throughout the week:

1. "SHUSH!!!!"
2. "appleg, did you hear...?" stories about thursday night's frat party, which has left several of my students hung-over, sleepy and hoarse
3. "quickly now, quickly now!"
4. "YES, you need to turn in work from when you were absent!" (silently... "moron")
5. "we won the spirit stick!" (seniors bragging on their recent trip to the abstinence-only -- ACK! -- conference nearby)
6. "if you're not going to hit it and quit it, then you want a relationship." (re: abigail & john in the crucible)
7. "medea is a FREAK!" (or, alternately, "abigail is a FREAK!")
8. "i want to see highlighting, people!"
9. "for god's sakes, people, protect yourselves on wednesday." (followed shortly by "how do you know about wednesday?")
10. "holla, applejacks!"


websites that i don't want my students to find while they're researching the crucible:

the-crucible.com