• Words that must be spoken

    That whole lemons to lemonade thing

    I feel like I shouldn’t be surprised at what happens in the classroom anymore. To say that I shouldn’t be surprised is an unrealistic view, however. There’s no way, no matter how many years a person devotes to education, to have seen it all. Or heard it all. Not when people are involved, anyway. Today, my students surprised me. I had finished grading the most recent review they had completed over chapters three and four of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. This is my smallest core class, with only 11 students. Of the 11, only four had not copied the answers from their classmates. You know…