The last month in the classroom has been awesome! we have just finished reading Animal Farm and besides a few behavioral hiccups all is going well. The students have enjoyed the novel though they did struggle with the link to communism at first.
The only real issue we have had is one week when I was gone for the KATE conference and my CT was sick. This was the first time this year the students were left without one of us and they tried to take full advantage of it. The principal had to be called in 3 times and 5 students had to be removed from the classroom.
The next class when we returned we lectured over classroom expectations even when a sub is there. Also, we assigned a two page essay over proper classroom behavior. This assignment I felt was unfair to some of the students whom most likely were not involved in the mischief; however, we did not want to show any favoritism.Though a few students complained at first they were able to see why we made it a classwide assignment. I wish we would have been able to come up with a better option, but I am still not sure what that would have been.
