Blue Day, Formerly B Day. Day 6.

The Everglades sits like a sponge sucking all of the water out of south Florida. It is home to alligators, rattlesnakes, biting insects and people from Weston. Every day the hothouse flowers spill their vase to incubate knowledge. Here also am I, drawn into this world like a raccoon to a trashcan in Savannah, a trashcan no doubt filled with Trader Joe wrappers and discarded Whole Food, fair trade coffee grounds. I thought I had escaped the suburbs, but the pastel nightmare continues to create a gravity from which I cannot free myself.

Period Five, AP Government and Politics did an opening assignment where they decide on a stronger or weaker government for Cypress Bay. Surprisingly (to themselves) they leaned more to the Federalist argument of more centralized power. We went over last weeks homework and I graded it during study hall. There is homework tonight comparing Brutus 1 and Federalist 10. It is in depth and not to be taken lightly.

During my day, I wandered into teacher planning where a science teacher was reclining near the place where a sink would be if the school architects had cared enough about humanity to install one. She mentioned I shouldn't really be tired teaching philosophy all day. I informed her she was misinformed, I do not teach philosophy and Socrates was often painted reclining. I told her it was AP Government etc. and she then suggested that I just needed to turn on the T.V. and let the news do my job. Hilarious. However the job of history teacher is to literally tell the story. It's in the name. I suggest scientists and their ilk could just slump in their chairs and point out that gravity is teaching the class today. However it takes skill and I appreciate that. If Oppenheimer had been a science teacher he would have been remarkable and possibly even more terrifying than the events he actually set in motion. A chain reaction if you will.

AICE Global Perspectives descended into chaos as groups of six tried to name the most countries. It was determined that Africa has more than twelve countries, no matter what my students might say. (Many kids named significantly more.) The winning group of six got a Reese's peanut butter cup to share amongst themselves. We then began our presentations on Ethos, Pathos and Logos. It will continue.

U.S. History Honors learned to do vocabulary using the PERSIA method. Little do they know they have a quiz soon on the causes of the Civil War. A kinder teacher would warn them. Apparently I am not that person. Alas.