Ms. Gramolini's Magical Kingdom

Adventures in Teaching in Saudi Arabia

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Finishing dinner and then realizing that I left a stack of essays on my desk that I needed to have graded by 1st period....

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My internal dialogue the first week of school

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Sitting through meeting after meeting during the week before school starts

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New teachers asking about what working at this school is like

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Students during the first week back to school who haven’t done their summer reading

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Showing up at meetings where there are no free snacks

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Trying to motivate my students

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Anytime anyone pisses me off at work

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“Miss, do we need to cite page numbers”?

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Grading 10th grade literature papers be like:

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Finding out we still have to stay late even though students leave early during exam week

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Me. Every weekend.

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When I started writing these report cards today

Now, 14 hours and a day of teaching later, I sit here back at them like

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When students ask why it’s such a big deal if they have their phones out all the time

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#facts

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Listening to my students trying to analyze Sylvia Plath

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When students have all these ideas for an assignment, but don’t know what to do with them

I’m like:

Students are like:

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My reaction when my students tell me that humans “need to” eat meat

#VEGAN #TEACHER #donttellmehowtolivemylife #baconisnotafoodgroup