Dear little stinkers in my 4th grade writing workshop,
You are all stinky stinkers. I brought to you the loveliest of lessons yesterday, all about Sei Shonagun and her pillow book and palace intrigue and how it's so amazing that we can read the diary of a woman who lived a thousand years ago, etc. etc. And I told you all about her 164 lists, and I showed you a painting of her, and I told you how she disappeared after leaving the imperial palace and that no one knows what happened to her...and you! You didn't care!
I held out little fortune cookie-like slips, each with the title of one of Shonagun's lists, and set you free to write because I am The World's Most Bestest 4th Grade Writing Workshop Facilitator. I ask: who among us would not love to put pencil to paper and go crazy writing lists to represent...
Splendid Things?
Rare Things?
Awkward Things?
Things That Irritate Me?
Things That Make Me Happy?
Things That Pass By Rapidly?
Well, apparently, stinky stinkers like YOU would not love such a thing. Stinky stinkers like YOU just wanted to crack up about bodily functions and hobos (wtf?!), classroom crushes, the morning's epic dodgeball game, and your fear of the upcoming Gold Rush test. So then I had to make you flip your notebooks back to the very first page and made you recite our group agreements, and then you all become contrite and sorry, and I almost forgave you. But I didn't. Because you are the stinkiest 4th grade stinkers to ever stink up a writing workshop.
Grudgingly Yours,
Ms. Montes
3 comments:
Heh, heh, I don't miss teaching but glad people like you stick it out. Brava!
I so admire real teachers! I'm just a parent volunteer who gets to walk away after an hour...
oh drats--i so would have loved to be in this class. what a cool writing assignment. You should write it up and send it somewhere anyway...
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