Courtesy of a fellow Cohort 8er who teaches in NY...
today in class my student asked me 'did this happen' about the story of eliezer and rivka at the well.
i let the other kids be like 'we're never going to know if it happened. it's a question of belief.'
'but sophie, do YOU think it happened'
'i'm not going to answer that right now'
'but it's really important'
'you're distracting from the story'
(i had tried to get them to act out the story, which they were excited about, but excitement + crazy kids = INSANITY and WAY TOO MUCH GIGGLING. oh well)
what i did not do:
a) talk about type scenes (though they brought up moshe and miriam. they meant tziporah but i don't have time to correct every mistake they make and they learn)
b) talk about how it doesn't matter
but really, i hate giggly, disrespectful 9th grade girls (who are also mean. some of them, not all of them). who turn my plans for trying to make learnign fun so they don't have to read all of a really long perek into 'let's laugh at x.'
YES!
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