Shoutout to my Sixth-Period Class

As was addressed in one of last week's blogs, my students have been watching Psycho and analyzing all sorts of things in the film. Today, however, we actually read an excerpt from Robert Bloch's novel (from which the film was adapted).

For the most part, Psycho the book and Psycho the movie are the same, but Marion Crane (film) is known as Mary in the book and Norman Bates is described as fat and bespectacled. Interesting, right? Tomorrow the students and I are going to be discussing the potential reasoning behind why Hitchcock decided to change Bates's appearance. I'm anticipating some comparisons to Ted Bundy, but we'll see what happens.

Anyway.

The reason I'm sharing this is because MY SIXTH-PERIOD STUDENTS ARE THE BEST READ-ALOUDERS I'VE EVER HAD! These kids are fluent and they enunciate and their volume is good and they emphasize italicized words and I WAS SO IMPRESSED! I told them today that in all my years of teaching, I've never had a class that reads aloud as well as they do. We are talking about ALL OF THEM.

EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM IS A GOOD READER!

Miss Roam-the-Hallways then said, "That's because we're all so comfortable in here with one another that no one cares if they mess up, Ms. Meeson."

And Agent B chuckled under her breath and echoed, "Read-alouders... You just called us 'read-alouders.'"

But legitimately: the kids in sixth period can read and I had a truly great time with them today!

That is all. I now have to get ready for trivia. Byeee!