Wednesday, April 10, 2013

my "awesome" language arts essay

My teacher was being mean to her fifth period because of some people who were being loud (COUGHCOUGHCOUGH not me) and made us do this essay. Mine's weird. It's exactly 400 words :D


When you have a substitute teacher in school, it is important to be on your best behavior. This is because the substitute probably hasn’t been to Miller Middle School before and might come again if he or she learns about how amazing the kids are here. If we are being loud and disruptive, the substitute teacher might think that all kids here are like that. The next time he or she sees anything Miller-related, he or she will think, “Oh, look, it is Joaquin Miller Middle School. That is where I was the substitute teacher for a fifth period full of hyper, talkative, loud-mouthed kids.” No one would want their school to be associated with something like this, which is why good behavior is essential when dealing with a substitute teacher.
You shouldn’t take advantage of the fact that your favorite teacher isn’t in the classroom to keep a constant watch over you. If you misbehave, your substitute teacher will take a note of it and send it to your normal teacher, who will punish you when he or she returns to school. Remember that the substitute teacher is confused because he or she doesn’t know exactly how your regular teacher runs things. The substitute teacher is doing his or her best to run a classroom, and you have to try and help him or her. Taking advantage of a substitute teacher is just inconsiderate and mean.
Behaving really well can sometimes be very hard. Maybe you just ate too much sugar and are bouncing off the walls. The substitute teacher might pronounce your name wrong, scream way too loud and turn off lights to get attention, act weird, or not run things the way you’re used to. You just might be having a bad day, and want to get some of that horrible feeling out. Don’t treat substitute teachers meanly, though; they sometimes have no idea what they’re doing because it might be their first time substitute teaching.
The next time you feel like taking advantage of a poor, helpless substitute teacher, try to put yourself in his or her point of view. How would you like it if you were stuck in front of a class of hyper students, trying to pound a language arts lesson into their distracted heads? From now on, just try to show some sympathy for substitute teachers by not taking advantage of them.

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