In other silencing moves:
Whether this will work depends a lot on the atmosphere of your classroom, but if the students have been instilled with some sense of interest in their grades, it seems like an interesting concept. Go stand near one student who has been behaving, look in the general area of him/her - not exactly at, but towards the small group surrounding said student - and start talking, VERY quietly, about what in the lesson is important. Teach to the small group. Make sure to drop important key words like "for your homework," "on the test," "good trick," and so forth. The people around them will start to overhear, but not be able to catch everything and, will try to silence those around them, slowly. Should be a ripple effect. If you time your voice right, by the time it's reached the edge of the classroom, you'll be talking in a voice that can be heard by everybody IF it's quiet.
It takes some improvisation to be able to come up with stuff that fits the key words, but it might be nice. I don't expect it will work until later in the term, but something to tuck away.
And.... I should be lesson planning. My principal wants to see plans tomorrow. Which is good. But I'm so tired.
Gris, I read your name as "Gus," and all I could think was "Good tip, but since when is Gus teaching?"
Yeah, I'm almost reading my own name as Gus. I might have to switch it to some other variation, just for easy readibility.
What do we think of:
DGris
Griz
Grizz
Grizzy
The Coolest Griz You'll Ever Meet Except My Sister
Or I guess I could go back to NovaChild, though if any of the students manage to discover my real email address (I have about 4 that forward to it) or my AIM name, that would be an even easier discovery.
O woe is me, what's for dinner? Besides nasty stuff from the back of the cupboard, I mean.
I'm thinking pasta so long as I have a jar of sauce stashed in the back of my cupboard. Or just plain pasta if I don't. I am hoping for a remnent of stale parm cheese in the fridge for the grating on top part. Because I am an optomist.
Maybe something that means the same thing as NovaChild. Say ExplodingOffspring, or BoomKid?
Yeah, I'm almost reading my own name as Gus. I might have to switch it to some other variation, just for easy readibility.
I read it as
mine
on quick scan last night. I took a double take.
I have some TJ's marinara, pasta and TJ's crumbled goat cheese which hadn't gone bad yet. You know, sometimes the cupboards are our friends.
Grizzy
I think you now need to change your name to Jeezey Greezey. It's a moral imperative.
I like
Gris,
Gris. This is the only time I've read it as "Gus" since you changed it. It was funny too, because when I saw what I thought was "Gus" I checked to see what thread I was in, because Gus is more often in Natter, Firefly, etc., and I'd meant to come into the Bitches thread. Then I read the post, and it was only when I checked again that I realized it was you.
DGris
That would be my fallback,after just plain Gris.
I like Gris as well. And now I know "Big curly, four letters and ends in s" isn't always Cass, but can be Gris as well.
Alternately, DGris if you feel the need to change.
