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By: Jennie E.

Jennie E. — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 03:01:43 +0000

Oh, Alistair! Before I even saw the words “learning scan,” I knew exactly where this was headed. I KNEW the principal was going to walk in because you are right: that is how the universe functions. Pretty much every time I’ve thought, “Wow, now would really be a bad time for an administrator to walk into my classroon,” it has happened! Once, I was explaining symbolism in Beowulf to my seniors and somehow managed to draw Beowulf’s sword so that it really did look like a penis. Of course, that is when an admin decides to walk in! At least my kids knew what phallic symbolism was and could identify it accurately

By: MDW

MDW — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 21:50:50 +0000

This story reminds me of the many many times my lessons have backfired in totally absurd ways. One lesson last year I learned is that if you want to be real with 8th graders you better be careful. I tried to introduce a challenging book last year by discussing social norms and expectations we have in regards to gender roles. I asked students to write on a sticky note what they thought society expected of a man and another sticky note with what society expected of woman. I then drew two boxes on the white board, one for men and one for women.
We collected the notes and started reading them off and placing them in the boxes. The social expectations for men were: “make money, bring home food and money for his family, shower, drive a nice car, go to work every day, make money, make money, make money…” We got the point, at least I think the mostly male class did. Then a volunteer started to read the social expectations for women: “take care of the kids, cook, clean, clean pearl, clean her pearl, her pearl needs to be clean” “Wait Wait, WHAT?!” I exclaimed! The boys were just howling, falling out of there seats laughing. Some of the girls looked pretty uncomfortable and one girl who could dominate the class started telling the boys they were “Dirty f@#$%%$ f!@#!” A shouting match ensued… I don’t think we got to the part of the lesson when I was going to ask students to write on the notes what society calls men and women who don’t match the descriptions in the boxes.