subbing for Sevens

I picked up a last minute sub assignment today for a science teacher at Samuel Jackman Middle School. And while subbing is SO not my pastime of choice (the exception being subbing for Wayne or even simply at his school, where he's known), I took on this shift to atone for my shopping habit.

So today, I taught six classes of seventh and eighth graders, showed "The Human Machine" twice and "Planets" four times, sent a student out for being disruptive, wrote down the names of seven students, verbally warned many more, and paced the classroom to maintain good behavior enough times that I don't feel so bad for skipping my run this morning.

Perhaps the title of my last post should have been: "designer denim—worth the headache?"