Today was an interesting day. It was a combination of the "keep working on project" and "put in a movie" days. Three of the six classes I had today got to watch a riveting docu-drama on Claude Monet. The last two classes got to watch Scooby-Doo.
The first class was really excited about this, up until they realized I wasn't talking about the movie with Sarah Michelle Gellar. After that a few of them had the nerve to actually complain.
After two episodes of Scooby-Doo, an episode of Huckleberry Hound came on. The kids really found this interesting, since it exposed them to a degree of cartoon violence that they had clearly never encountered (in school, at least). In the episode, H. Hound took on the role of a lion tamer. I would describe it, but you can just watch the episode below. The scene with the pistol really blew their minds.
The end of the Scooby-Doo tape contained an episode of Dexter's Laboratory. I THINK it might have been the pilot, but I'm not exactly sure. I did a quick search of YouTube and couldn't find it. What chilled me right to the bone was that a few kids had actually never heard of the show.
Lastly, I've got a new picture of myself. This may just be the best one yet. When you see it, the girl wasn't trying to make fun of me. She'd actually drawn several pictures of her classmates in the exact same "pose," for lack of a better word.
Gotta love the art students!! -don't worry Kyle. Art students learn early on that if they do a rendering that actually looks like the subject, they get a worse grade. the picture of you exudes enthusiasm. You did your job.
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