Simile of the Day

yesterday we went over some of the devices and "language tricks" that shakespeare uses throughout romeo & juliet. for homework, the students had to create original examples of similes, metaphors, personification, classical allusions, and so on. the best one?

"Detention sucks like a powerful vacuum."

i laughed out loud. i love when they find inspiration from their own experiences...

Quote of the Day

from one of my students.... "man, i'm the king of 'manhunt' because i'm black. i blend into everything at night!"

the things that come out of their mouths just crack me up sometimes. :o)

The Latest Craze - And I Swear I'm Not Making This Up

the latest fad on our high school campus? no, it's not what the teens are wearing, it's something they're playing with. you may ask, is it a new cellphone, perhaps? nope. a new high-tech mp3 player? not even close. the newest craze - to the point that i have to tell them to put it away because they need to do work - is the rubik's cube.

what's that, you ask? have we somehow landed in 1983? (it wouldn't be hard to draw that conclusion given the footless tights, day-glow shirts, and ballet flats that all the girls are wearing, but i digress...) no, it seems that since these kids weren't alive in the 80's, they somehow missed out on the entertaining and puzzling color cube. they have now found it, and it's the latest thing to see how long it takes you to solve it. they have races. i am not making this up. and these races are not being done by the nerdy social pariahs. oh, no, these are the normal, fairly popular, main-stream kids.

it just boggles my mind.