2002-01-14 ± 1:27 p.m.
I don't have a life. I teach.

I'm attempting to expand my unit on emotions to include biology and psychology...in an effort to break away from drilling grammar and move into something my kids might enjoy. problem? explaining how/why humans have emotions is fairly damn complicated. I was thinking "well shit I took AP bio in high school and I took a psych course "perception, science and reality" at university...I'm set.

I am so not set.

today I had my students write predictions about how they thought emotions work in the body...the most elaborate explanations had to do with blood carrying emotions from the brain to the rest of the body. I tried to explain the concept of nerves..."yeah Miss these" (points to blue veins on his wrist).

so I'm going to have to explain the nervous system before I can even begin to delve into the limbic system or any other details about the brain.

what did my students study before they came here?

at least my being a bitch last week has produced better behavior today.

yuck. I don't even like talking about teaching and here I am writing about it...I should make this a teach free zone...though I really have nothing else going on in my life right now.

I used to be fairly enjoyable to spend time with...now I'm all like "ohmygoodness carlos said the funniest thing yesterday...you wouldn't believe what mohammed said to wilfredo in first period."

ugh.

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