This is a teacher who is leaving us and I'm going to miss A LOT.

[charisstoma]

Months of reading Dickens had made my second period start to sound like tiny Edwardian curmudgeons. I played a movie version of Oliver Twist, and these are the kinds of things they shouted when the movie started to veer from the text:

Students(7th grade is 12 to 13 years old):
This is an outrage!!!!!
This movie is a disgrace!
Charles Dickens would be *ashamed*, I tell you!
Wha?! Where is Rose Maylie? Where is Harry Maylie?! Have you no regard for plot, sir? Have you no respect for LOVE?

Teacher: Soooo....I brought popcorn......

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[charisstoma.livejournal.com]

First period will start shortly. Things have been slightly awkward ever since I clarified that Sherlock Holmes is a fictional character written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, rather than a fictional character based on a real person named Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Most devastated reaction: "My whole life is a lie!!!!" followed by a gusty sigh. Almost as bad as the time I had to explain that while Narwhals, the "unicorn of the sea" are in fact real animals, unicorns themselves are not. It's a hard knock life, y'all.

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[mee-eep.livejournal.com]

You killer of fairytales you!

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[charisstoma.livejournal.com]

I didn't do it!
*points finger* She did it.
Now if they'd asked, I would have told them, sure, but it wasn't me.

And just for that, I have corrupted the telling of the 3 Little Pigs.

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[mee-eep.livejournal.com]

hmmmmmm *looks at you*

Oh my, should I go look?

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[charisstoma.livejournal.com]

Should you go look at my perverting of the 3 Little Pigs... hmmm.
There are no pigs or wolf involved. Does that help?
Do I need to do research into the origins of the tale of the 3 Little Pigs to determine if a Welsh person would have read it/had it read to them, so you'd know why I mentioned this? hmmm
It's a very shallow drabble. Full of air. UNLESS you bring deeper thinking from your own experience to it.

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[mee-eep.livejournal.com]

um deeper thinking?.....I'm not capable of that at right now. Maybe after sleep?