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My lecture yesterday

1066 Oct 14 - Battle of Hastings / Norman Conquest

• King Edward had no heir; William the Conqueror thought he was the next in line.
• Harold Godwin, Earl of Wessex was crowned. William got mad and waged war and won. Harold died
• Ties were cut with Scandinavia, End of the Anglo-Saxon period, Start of Middle Ages
• Normans had Feudalism and French Language and Culture, which William brought to England
• William took the lands of those who went against him, and distributed it among those who were loyal to him and some he kept for himself – fiefs and fealty
• Replacement of the Saxons and Britons in offices by Normans (French)

1067 – Pope Gregory VII was new pope

• established Church reforms

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August 28th 2007
For the first time, I lectured. Usually, it’s a discussion, according to my supervising teacher’s instructions. She said, as much as possible, I shouldn’t lecture, but since the lesson was something they don’t have reading materials of, nor were they told to read anything about it, I lectured. My fellow Grade 9 student teacher, Justin, lectures all the time. Mine is always focused on a discussion, drawing from them the contents of the lesson.

Calcium was at it again today, as usual. They were almost 30 minutes late, and they weren’t paying attention during the lecture. Halfway through, I told them that I’m going to give a quiz on the lecture on Thursday. Did that shut them up? Of course!!!…. not. That’s not my problem anymore though. Even without me telling them that I’m going to give a quiz, they should be listening–quiz or no quiz.
For Gold, I planned to push through what I originally planned. Give the lecture then have an activity of connecting events with each other. But my ST told me to have them evaluate their group members about the group project. I didn’t want to do it, since a group work is a group work. The group grade should just be one, but she said the members should have their point allotment as well, since not everyone worked on it anyway. That took about 15 minutes. Then they asked me if they could practice in front of me for their Filipino, I asked them to choose, whether to have a quiz on Thursday but they could practice in my class, or no practice and no quiz on Thursday and have the activity. They said they wanted to practice and they’ll just take a quiz on Thursday. I told them to listen carefully and not to be quiet…

Ah the joys of high school. Of course they weren’t that quiet. I knew that some weren’t paying attention either. I wasn’t able to finish fast enough, because some wanted me to repeat things over and over again. I sometimes had to explain it in Tagalog. I couldn’t take out the question and answer parts since some students like Dancel, the class’ wondergirl, itches to share something. So with about 20 minutes left, they didn’t want to practice anymore. The quiz will still continue tomorrow though.

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August 24th 2007

Week 11 ends, and it was utterly tiresome.

I wanted to cry during Calcium.  Gold was great today. They were behaved and nice, and the discussion was just fine. I didn’t have to shut them up so much. But Calcium…

my GOD… Calcium was like testing my patience. They were so noisy. I tried employing all the recommended actions to get the class to be quiet.

• Silently looking at them, hoping they get the message — Failed.
• Shouting, or rather, telling them to keep quiet loud enough to overpower ALL their voices — Failed.
• Silently tapping rhythmically on something, like a pen on a table — Failed
• … whiteboard marker on the whiteboard ledge — Failed
• Standing in front quietly arms crossed — Failed
• Arms crossed screaming at them to shut up — Failed
• Separating some noisy kids from each other — Failed. They ended up throwing stuff at each other.
• Sending someone outside the classroom — Failed.
• Banging on the blackboard — Failed

I wanted to walk out. I really wanted to, but after trying all those, I’d end up the loser. Maybe next time, I won’t try all of that. At most 2 or 3, and if that doesn’t work, I’ll walk out.

Another technique I could have used was to tell them there would be a quiz, but there was nothing to quiz. I’ll use that some other time as well.

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I found this cool website that offers expert Cosmetic Surgery Advice.

Make Yourself Amazing free advice lets you ask questions about possible options to, say, remove those ugly spots, or get rid of your flabs, or for removing scars and such. What I saw nice about it is that it also suggests visits to a General Practitioner or a GP before actually visiting them, as some would not be under cosmetic surgery and some GPs could do it themselves.

It also doesn’t just say “Hey, you’re fat, get a liposuction” instead they talk a little about dieting and stuff, and that liposuction isn’t really a solution.

There goes my dreams of having a liposuction when I’m filthy rich! :3

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