I've had substitute teaching positions for the last four out of six days. I've taught Spanish, Math and Science. You should have seen my trying to help the pre-Algebra class. It was a riot. I looked at the problem thoughtfully and said, "Who can show us how to solve for X?"
I'm really enjoying it, but I've decided that they leave the most gawd-awful assignments for the subs. No wonder kids hate having a sub. For instance, the Spanish teacher had an emergency, and had to leave quickly, which is why I was called in. She said she never lets the kids watch videos so this would be a big treat. Cool! Easy for me.
The movie was The Mark of Zorro - not the one with Antonio Banderas, much to the female students dismay. It starred Tyrone Power and was in black and white. The only thing it had to do with Spanish class was that they threw a few Senors and Senoritas in the script to make it more authentic. It actually wasn't so bad. The writing was rather witty. The kids had questions to answer, so they paid attention. But, by the end of the day, I'd seen the first 55 minutes of Zorro five times!
The teacher requested me again on Monday, presumably because I knew the routine now. Okay, I though, today we'll see the end of Zorro five times.
But NO! The school has A and B days. So I got to see the beginning of Zorro, again, FIVE times. Just to have closure, I stayed in the classroom at lunchtime and finished the movie, just to be sure Zorro didn't get caught, the badguy got what he deserved and they all lived happily ever after.
After that, I started bringing a book!
BTW - Zorro means "sly fox" in Spanish. That was one of the movie questions.
