3.5 hours of decorating = one semi-formal dance.It's an ice theme. While going through suggestions, I jokingly said "someone in Florida chose Ice, Ice Baby!" And they loved it. The students can even recite all the lyrics to the song. It's cool. Everyone over the age of 30 is still shaking their heads. However, the decorations ended up looking quite nice - we did have an argument about the colored rocks (fake ice)... some students really wanted to scatter them on the table. Every teacher/parent knows where those rocks would end up in a matter of 3 seconds. Flying through the air... so they're regulated to the glass bowls. It should take them about an hour to figure out tossing the rocks and if you add in an hour to wait in the photo line, and time for waiting for punch, using the restroom, making out with your date and a dance or two, they just might not have enough time.
The semster ends next week. It's been a hard semester. Partially because the AP class produces at lot more work and there is a lot more explaining responsibility to the students. (they all thought I would read the novels to them in class!) However, I think it's been more of a change we made last year to the English Department - we started offering "Honors" classes in 9/10th grades. That meant that the "regular" english courses ended up overloaded with students who hate everything. They hate school, homework, reading, writing, books, stories, poetry, drawing, coloring and virtually everything that does not include the word "movie". Negativity is a huge motivation killer. Next semester the students are being mixed around. I'm hoping that it will create a little more positivity.
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