Me: "Copying the answer from Jasmine won't really help you figure out what to do."

Student: (shouting) "I didn't copy it."

Me: Really?

Student: (more angry now) "I didn't! I didn't copy it!" I just look at her. "She wrote it on my paper!!!!!"

Clearly. I was wrong.

Me (to student I haven't seen in class in months): Looking forward to seeing you in class today!

Student: I'm not coming. I'm mad at you because you said I cut class. I GO to class. Just not yours.

I gave my students a reflection to fill out. No right or wrong answers, just a minimal bit of thinking.

I got THREE identical papers which included this answer:

"I wanted to know where amatin english."

"blah blah blah 85" "So I guess Victoria's Secret takes care of the other 25 percent." I look up from my computer, where they think I'm not paying attention, and say "85 and 25 add up to more than a 100 percent."

Same student, later. "I'm not giving up my rainforest!"

"What are you talking about? Rock doesn't have anything to do with white people!"

We are reading a side-by-side version of Romeo and Juliet--original version on the left, more modernized version on the right.

One of my students said: "Miss, do we write our quote in Shakespeare or in English?"