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----------------------------------Hello dear students, may I welcome you to your first day at G.P.P.S. As your Principal, I am very excited to see young people learning. I wish you the best, and I hope your graduate with honors pinned on your shirts of excellence! You may now go to your classrooms. ------------------------------------- Hi, I am Mrs. Gloworm, and I expect you to address me as such. In this classroom we will be learning about Science. Nothing more, nothing less….it seems I have one student, Miss Sydney Mango. In our first few lessons, we will be approaching Earth Science. I expect you to listen, have proper essays returned, and such. I will tolerate no lolly-gagging. ........In our first lesson we will be learning about Earth Spheres. Such as biosphere, hydrosphere, and lithosphere.. ..........We are all part of a zone of the earth called Biosphere. Green, brown, and blue areas of the world are where jungles, oceans, forests, and deserts explode into life. ............The blue part of the earth covering 3/4 is water. Water found anywhere on the earth is called hydrosphere. .................When hydrosphere laps at the coasts as ocean waves, or flows quickly down rivers and streams, it reshapes the earth. Waves have sculpted the land, forming sea caves, sea arches, cliffs, islands, and many other forms of lithosphere..............Now I want you to write me a six-sentence essay about how these spheres effect you..............
I will grade your papers when they are returned.
submitted by Mrs. Gloworm, age A teacher., Science Classro
(October 10, 2009 - 10:51 am)
(October 10, 2009 - 10:51 am)
Here is my redo.
The spheres affect me in many ways. The hydrosphere is what I drink, and water is important for all life. We are mostly water, which means without it, we would not be alive! The biosphere is also important, as it is where we live. It affects me because without it, we would be floating in space because there is no land. The spheres are important.
(October 19, 2009 - 4:45 pm)
Mrs. GloWorm, would you accept a student teacher? (As in a person training to be a teacher and helping teach the class) If not, is it too late to join?
(One small sugestion: Not to be disrespectful, but you might not want your charactor to be quite so . . . snippy. It doesn't exactly make a person want to join . . . Not to be teaching you class, or anything, but maybe giving Dawnpaw a D- was a bit extreme . . . Sorry, that's all.
I don't mean to be rude or anything, so please, no offense!) Oh, and I am a 13-year-old and I am a girl.
(October 19, 2009 - 6:56 pm)
[Oh, I'm not offended btw! I'm trying to give variety to my class with a snippy teacher/flowy teacher (art)/no-nonsense teacher (literature)/and a really nice teacher (English). But I still try to grade fairly.]
(October 20, 2009 - 10:05 am)
Mango - I'll grade it tommorow.
Miss Dawnpaw - I still see nothing on lithosphere, but it is better. B-.
Emma - I'm afraid I can't have a student teacher, but you may join the classroom as a student.
(October 19, 2009 - 11:45 pm)
Hello! My name is Choco. I would be very excited to enroll into your class. I will come to the classes on Sundays, Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays. If I will be missing I will post it, so you will not be worried. What are you going to teach us about this year? I think your classroom is gregarious( very nice and cool). I love school so I think it will be cool to have a school on Chatterbox! Also you are awesome, Mrs. Gloworm. And you are going to be the best principal ever( What is your name?). Here is my essay:
These spheres effect how we live our everyday lives by keeping our earth healthy and clean, which helps us because if we do not have a clean planet we could die. Most of the lithosphere on the Earth we have adapted living on, like many people live on islands, and on top of cliffs. They help us by giving us more space to grow our communties. Also sea caves and sea arches will help us learn about the creatures we share our planet with. Jungles, deserts, forests, oceans, caves, and platuaes are beautiful parts of biosphere which helps us control the weather. If the whole world was just desert then the whole world would adapt to living in a desert ecosystem, but the weater would be very different. I love our Earth.
Did you like my essay. I worked really hard on it. Also are we going to have any tests?
(October 20, 2009 - 5:51 pm)
Mango - Very well written report. A.
(October 20, 2009 - 9:12 pm)
Thank you, Mrs. GloWorm! Would you like me to do the report about the
atmosphere and the magnetosphere or wait for the next assignment to
start?
(October 22, 2009 - 12:20 pm)
Choco - Oh thank you, but I'm afraid that I've already started another lesson! Please wait till next Monday.
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Emma - You may wait till next Monday, dear.
(October 22, 2009 - 8:22 pm)
Thank you, Mrs. GloWorm
(October 23, 2009 - 1:09 am)
*feels terrible, is coughing her guts out, and has a slight fever* *is freaked that she might have H1N1* *Is hoping she can make it to the band concert tonight, Top Tiger (reward fun-day thing for good students) bowling/Halloween dress up day tomorrow, and her aunt's Halloween party on Halloween* Sorry, Mrs. GloWorm. I'm sick and probably won't be in the rest of this week and probably some of next week. =(
(October 29, 2009 - 7:29 pm)
Just a few questions, Mrs. GloWorm. What is your grading criteria? Do you grade on a curve? How much is each part of an assignment (i.e. spelling, content, conventions, etc.) weighted? How many points is each assignment worth? How do you calculate grades? Oh, one more thing, if people want to make another school or a tutoring program, why do you not want them to? It seems a bit unfair to not allow them to simply because you did it first. What about people that are turned away because your school is too full? What about people that are struggling and need help? What if some people don't like, or are intimidated by, your teaching style? There is nearly always more than one school in one city, and other schools don't tell them they can't open, so why do are you? What reason is there for it? Just wondering.
Sincerly,
~E.R.O.
(November 7, 2009 - 7:43 pm)
Sorry, I don't know the answer to any of you questions, E.R.O. Mrs. GloWorm??!!! Where are you????!!!!
(November 8, 2009 - 12:04 pm)
I am a critic of schools and I would say the teacher gets a C- for insensitivity, And giving less information than is nessessary before quizzing her students on a topic.
Reccomendations are:
Be nicer, because it's hard to remember that you're playing a character,
and Rather than dominating all the subjects maybe let there be one language teacher, one science teacher, etc.
(November 8, 2009 - 10:51 pm)
I'm baaaaaack!! I was really busy. Sorry. Anyway, what do I do now??? (By the way, a big thank you to Anonymous Person and E.whatisit.again?. (I couldn't remember your name, sorry))
(November 9, 2009 - 4:31 pm)
It's E.R.O. You're welcome, Mango. Mrs. GloWorm? I would like the answers to my questions as soon as possible.
Thank you.
~E.R.O.
(November 9, 2009 - 6:54 pm)