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A Southern California Substitute Teacher
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Hello everybody! I'm a substitute teacher in the Southern California area, and throughout the school year I'll blog on how my school day goes as a middle school and high school sub.
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Sub system made me come late
On this day, Monday June 1, I came late to a class for the first time. However, it wasn't my fault. The subsystem called me and told me to come for a regular 1st period class. However, the teacher had a zero period, and of course, I arrived and th...
Battle of the Sexes and "In ten years I'll be....
On Friday, I subbed high school english, 2 frosh classes and 3 senior ones. The freshmen did a worksheet on Romeo & Juliet. The seniors were a little more interesting. I'll get to that in a moment.It was an assembly schedule and the assembly wasn'...
Skipping around the Odyssey & Assignments due that period
On Friday, I subbed for an English teacher, and his 9th grade classes were assigned to read "The Odyssey" as they followed along from a CD. The teacher said the CD should be in the same order as the book. However, there was an awkward situation. As...
Gay Marriage, Grammar & Legalizing Marijuana
On Wednesday, I subbed for the same class as the day before b/c the teacher was still sick. For her three freshman english honors classes, they did a practice quiz and then worked on grammar in the library. When my first freshmen did the practice qu...
You can use the teacher's edition (Not really a good idea).
On Tuesday, I got a english job at a high school, with 3 classes of honors freshman and regular juniors. The teacher said the classes are also in a competition on who was the best. Before I taught that day, I was thinking that one of the honors cla...
