I have been waiting to post because I really wanted to post on this one boy in my 12th grade honors class and I was waiting till today to see if he would finally hand in the writing assignment that was due last week. If i didn't have it I wouldn't have had any writing to bring in with me from this student. LUCKILY!!! he handed it to me at the beginning of class.
This boy drives me nuts! He brings the craziest things with him to class everyday...they aren't really toys...but when I take away the harddrive he took out of his computer to bring with him to class...I feel like I am taking away his new hot wheels from Toys R Us. He is in my Honors class (which for the most part is full of amazing students) and he does deserve to be there. He is super smart but he is just off the wall. He always wears one of those hats with the big furry animal coming off the top of it...his is a wolf. He sits in class and plays with whatever he has brought in that day until I walk over and move it onto another desk or take it. The thing that drives me the craziest is every time he knows exactly whats going on in class. He has the BEST answers to all my questions. It makes it so hard to say something about how he acts in class because he knows more about what going on then the students sitting in class listening. The only thing I feel like I can say to him is that he is distracting his classmates.
He only does in-class work. Any homework I send home generally doesn't make it back and if it does it is not necessarily going to be in one piece. The other problem I have is when it is a writing assignment, like the one I collected from him today, he doesn't follow the directions at all but the writing is good and he clearly put effort into it. The writing assignment he handed in today was suppose to be two TIQA paragraphs (TIQA is this body paragraph thing the entire school uses) what he handed in doesn't have one quote. The Q in TIQA stands for quote the A is for an analysis of THAT quote. Without a quote to analyze there is no Q or A. His two paragraphs are great though...but at the same time he didn't do what I asked him to do. Then on top of that it is a week late and I am pretty sure he only gave it to me so I would get off his back about it. I have been pestering him about it so I could use him as my example in class this week.
I honestly wish you could all see his hat!!! I don't think he ever takes it off. Morning, noon, and night he wears that wolf hat.
Sometimes the most challenging students lead to the most rewarding experiences! Keep on top of him if it makes him hand in his work! You'll eventually have a break through!
ReplyDeleteI feel your pain Kaitlin. My "eccentric C" is pretty much the same. He always has the answers which are thoughtful and insightful but never hands in his work. It is frustrating. Keep with it and like Megan said eventually you WILL break through!
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