Interesting day...

My work week finished pretty well. The next day after I posted about my 10g not doing their homework, they ALL came prepared with it. Of course I was furious they hadnt done it in the first place, so I assigned them extra HW for the next day, and they rose to the occasion. When I asked them to take it out, I was so very excited that it was done, and the class flowed so smoothly.

In fact I have a funny story.....So one of the new vocab words we went over in class was LEAN, the adjective that means thin. So one student, who is obseesed with rap and hip-hop (and asks me frequently the meaning of slang terms used in rap songs) asked me if this is the same LEAN as in Fat Joe's song "Lean Back" All I could do is last initially. I explained what that Lean meant, and proceeded to do the motion, and eventually do the dance. I thought it would be fun for everyone to do it also, so I told them I would teach them to "Lean Back" So I asked them all to stand up, and one girl asked me to sing the melody. So I start singing the song and we all start to LEAN BACK. And some of them got it pretty well, while others...uumm NOT so much. But it was fun!

Moving on to the next activity in class, which required the students to take a few minutes and find vocab words in the text we were reading. So the Lean Back kid isnt doing his work. So I say to him, What are you doin? This fool sayd to mean "Im patiently waiting and taking my time" and at first I didnt get it. But then he said it again and I realized that it was from that Nelly and Fergie song "Party People" So this MOFO think he a rapper now huh? So he asks me if he could rap the song in class (the really fast part of the song). And of course all the little girls in class is cosignin talkin bout yeah, please let him do it. He is the best at it and he says it really fast. So he plays the song on his phone and indeed, he said the fast part as good as Nelly himself. But when I asked if he UNDERSTOOD what he was sayin, that was a diff story......

Oh and the same kid randomly asked me if I knew how many times a heart beat in a day. I said no, but what does that have to do with the work from the textbook. He says nothin I was just wonderin cuz I need a dollar for everytime my heart beats. So then like 2 seconds lata he busts out this 50 Cent song "I need a dollar everytime my heart beats, uh uh now how much is that" He needs to really stop with his Banksta foolishness!