In this one I continued my previous lesson on the long rifle registry. Honestly, this was more of a wrap-up and activity than a continued lesson. I had originally planned on having a bit of a debate or something, but I chickened out on that idea. At any rate...
My ECS partner (I'm not supposed to actual names, but typing "My ECS partner" is kinda tedious, so he will hereafter be known as "Mr. X.").... where was I? Oh yeah, Mr. X taught his lesson first. It was a continuation of his last lesson on Canada's food guide. He decided to check out the Health Canada website for this one, and have the students make their own food guide. They wheeled in these big laptop carts, which honestly looked like they had been shipped in from another planet. The kids each received a macbook, and got cooking. From what I've seen, it kind of seems like laptop lessons should be pretty loosely structured, and cannot really involve step-by-step, teacher-led instruction. Basically, kids should have instructions on the board, and go off of them... the laptops are just too inconsistent. Some are way faster, some have problems, so on and so forth. At any rate, it was a decent lesson... I found it funny what some students listed as regular activities. Some said they did pilates?! Others were like, marathon swimmers... I dunno.
Mr. X's lesson took a good chunk of time, which was for the best, because I had scrapped the "debate" part of my lesson. We continued with reasons against the long-rifle registry. One reason students kept bringing up as a 'con' to the registry was the idea that someone could steal your registered gun, commit a crime with it, and you'd take the fall for it due to the registry. I kept explaining, however, that the police have a larger body of evidence than the gun registry... Also, they didn't understand that if you have a gun that is stolen, not reporting it as such is a crime in itself. Thus, if a crime is committed with your stolen gun, the police should already know it is stolen, and if they don't, you're in trouble... At any rate, I got them to fill in some reasons why they support or do not support the registry. Most of them said they supported it, because it helps control crime, or that guns are bad and scary, or something. A few really good answers came in, a few underwhelming answers came in. It was pretty good though.
The math period was a bit more interesting. The teacher, to be known as Mrs. Y., always has trouble controlling the class. She isn't the usual classroom teacher, which is a challenge in itself, but she... her disciplinary actions only seem to encourage more acting up. She is very nagging and adversarial, in such a way that evokes a response from the students. One kid seemed to have a bit of a rage problem, in that, whenever he got reprimanded, he would respond with gritted teeth. He was also pretty defiant in general with Mrs. Y.... I think something might be going on in his home life, or something. It's not normal to seethe around like that...
That's about as much as I have for today. Tune in next week... by which I mean in five minutes, because I'm about to post my next one.
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