My Nightmare

I'm currently substituting for high school Language Arts. This morning I had a senior class and right now I have sophomores. I know what you're thinking, "why is she blogging while subbing?...Shouldn't she be doing something?". Great question...I do actually feel a tad bit guilty. But, I'll tell you why. I'm SO bored!! All the teacher left for them to do is: READ. Independently. Quietly. BORING.

The seniors this morning were so silent. Crickets. Literally. It was so hard for me not to fall asleep. Luckily I knew one of the kids in class and he came to chat with me towards the end...so that kept me awake. Now the sophomores are doing the same thing. All you can hear is pages turning, loud breathing now and then, and my typing. Eerie. Since when are high schoolers like this? Especially the first day back from Spring Break...CHELLO, don't you want to talk to your friends about your week's adventures?! I know this is like every substitute's dream...but this is a nightmare. Look alive kids, look alive!

The worst part is...I forgot my book. Grrr. I organized my planner for the week/month last hour. Now I'm blogging this hour. If my next class hour is this creepily quiet, I don't know what I'll do.
So I guess what I'm suggesting is this: If you are in high school and all you're supposed to do is read for an hour and a half of class...please don't read the whole time. Please entertain me with hilarity and stupidity at some point. Let me over hear your dramatic conversations about who did what over break so that I can silently laugh to myself. Give me something...ANYTHING!

Let's find a happy medium between this silence and then the chaos I created last time I subbed when I taught the math class how to more effectively make a paper-ball for trash can basketball. (The wadded up paper that they were using to shoot into the trash can was WAY too light and not wadded tightly enough into a ball...they were struggling...so I helped them make a better "ball" and then told them to set the trash can against the wall so they could use a "backboard"). Not my best idea...but possibly one of my funnest. Don't worry...the students were all completely finished with the assignment the teacher left...so what do you expect me to do? I mean...I can't allow an intense game of paperball every class period...but

This. Is. Torture.