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Tuesday, November 19, 2013

"Chalk" Movie Notes


Chalk

·         His whole family was teachers

·         He wouldn’t be who he is without his teachers

·         50% of teachers quit within the first 3 years

·         Mr. Stroup teaches history its his third year, he starts out with a joke. He is a jokester and opens the kids up by asking them what they did this summer. He wants to win teacher of the year.

·         Coach Webb is excited teaches PE. 2nd year. She says she depends on other people a lot and sayd ppl don’t realize how hard it is to be a teacher.

·         Show up to class and be prepared with paper says another teacher

·         Another teacher was told that she could kiss his white ass

·         Mr. Lowery A boring teacher is trying to get his students to read the board with him. He has a degree in computer science and this is his first time teaching.

·         Administration is there from 6 30 to eight on the weekdays and comes in on Saturdays too. He thought he wouldn’t have to do that since he wasn’t a teacher anymore.

·         Mrs. Reddell first year AP

·         Mr. Stroup’s three goals from last year for is sarcasm, cleanliness, organization, and lesson plans.

·         Mrs. Reddell breaks up a fight.

·         Ms. Webb says people assume she is gay.

·         They say don’t be the students friend. He wants to let them know that he cares about them early on. The students start fighting and don’t really listen to him.

·         Third nigh in a row Mrs. Reddell gets home after ten pm. She hasn’t had much of a relationship with her husband.

·         Pe teacher makes a nice math teacher enforce the no tardy rule.

·         Someone takes Mr. Stroup’s chalk and won’t give it back.

·         So he lets a kid teach the class instead because they won’t respect them.

·         Ms. Webb says that she makes students understand her expectations and thinks she can help the students believe they can be athletic even though she knows they don’t want to be athletic.

·         Mr. Stroup talks to two students about using big words he doesn’t understand. And tells him not to because it makes him look dumb.

·         Mrs. Reddell tried to chase a cat down.

·         Ms. Webb teaches the kids some yoga positions.  A guy says it’s making him hot and vulnerable.

·         Mr. Stroup says he’s tried to incorporate humor and jokes into class.

·         Ms. Webb says she finds herself interested in someone at work.

·         Teachers discuss a few questions. Mr. Lowery wants to know who checks their personal email during class. He asks who borrows paper from the teacher room and who borrows cash from the petty money. He wants to know who took his stapler because its win integrity now month. He’s explaining to them about integrity and how their supposed to be role models.

·         Mr. Stroup calls a student’s parent and says that he has a bad grade and fakes it. He doesn’t even tell the student what it’s about.

·         Teaching is taking up Mr. Stroups life and he can’t imagine dating anyone because of that.

·         Mr. Stroup freaks out on his students for having their cell phones go off. And kicks someone out and then tried to make him come back and he doesn’t and tell him he is a shitty teacher.

·         Mr. Lowery gets nominated for teacher of the year.

·         He speaks at the teacher of the year debate. And gets recognition from the crowd. But he doesn’t win.

·         The assistant principal said she filled in for teachers twice in the whole year and those were her best days. She misses teaching and has no life as an administrative assistant.

·         Mr. Lawry wins the teacher spelling hornet.

·         Mr. Lawry raps with the kids and has a good time.

·         Mr. Lawry doesn’t know if he is going to come back next year. He says he respects teaching more, but he doesn’t know if he likes it very much. Another teacher says he wishes he had the guts to leave.

·         Ms. Webb learned people are very insecure and she is very pushy and she needs to be more encouraging.

·         Being a teacher is a gift maybe someone can learn but nobody has taught me. Says Mr. Lawry. He didn’t sign for next year.

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