FRANCE!

[fearlesstemp]

What do I do all day? Here is the best representation I've found - hilarious but also accurate:

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[sinsense.livejournal.com]

I'm actually not even enjoying it, because it is TOO TRUE. Oh god help me.

[fearlesstemp.livejournal.com]

I KNOW! It's like they were sitting in on one of my WW2 lessons!

Today I was intro-ing the Cold War and spent three minutes up there trying to get them to figure out why the U.S. emerged as a stronger power than Great Britain or France after WW2.

FearlessTeacher: Why was the U.S. considered a significant power after WW2?

CluelessStudent: Because we were bigger?

FT: Well, uh, that's true, but not really -

CS: Isn't Russia bigger?

FT: Well, yes, but-

CS: Then who's the big power?

FT: Well, they both are-

CS: Then what -

FT: THE WAR WAS FOUGHT IN EUROPE! THE US IS LEFT INTACT! THE US HAS THE ATOMIC BOMB! WE'RE THE BIG SCARY WEAPONS-HAVING, GOODS-PRODUCING CAPITALIST NATION!

CS: . . . Should I write that down?

FT: Why the hell not.

CS: What unit is this again?

CS2: Can I have a pencil?

CS3: Wait, who won World War II?

Internal FT: [Expletive deleted]

External FT: Okay, let's go back to the beginning!

[sinsense.livejournal.com]

YES! YES! AHAHAHA oh god.

Sinsense: Okay, so what is Foucault saying here?

Students: [zombie noises, vapid gumming at their notebooks]

S: This part where he talks about a prison, what is he getting at?

Sts: [gum gum gum]

S: Okay, so what does the Panopticon look like?

Student1: [raises hand]

S: Yes?

S1: So this is like America? I used to work at a RadioShack, and we always had to do stuff and stuff.

S: Okay, so you were under surveillance... like the prisoners in the Panopticon... LOOK THEY ARE PEOPLE CONSTANTLY BEING WATCHED IT IS LIKE SOCIETY OKAY.

Students: [gum gum wha'?]

S: Haha, okay, seriously, what does the actual building look like? Let's draw a picture on the board.

My soul: [dies]

[suzy_queue]

<.snortgiggle> That is horribly accurate and funny.

I ran across this sketch today and it made me think of your teaching adventures, too. (Lauren's catch phrase is "Am I bovvered?" which is why "Amest I bovver-ed?" is kind of hysterical. And the teacher is David Tennant,who does play the Tenth Doctor. And I think that's the only bits of explanation you need. *g*) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9uugVWW_XE

[ladulcinea.livejournal.com]

LOL I love that sketch. My favorite part is, "Who was Indiana Jones fighting against - besides the snakes?" *Chris Farley slowly withdraws hand*

It is alarmingly accurate. The strained positive recognition of non sequiturs and general idiocy, the song-and-dance to try not to directly give them the answer ... too funny.

[foxyfrau.livejournal.com]

Wow. I remember sitting through classes like this and wanting to die. Does Little Anna look like she wants to die during all of this?

[fearlesstemp.livejournal.com]

That sketch is hilarious! Thank you for linking me to it - it was great.

[fearlesstemp.livejournal.com]

Yes, the strained positive recognition! The song-and-dance to avoid directly giving answers! The growing frustration and desperate attempts to hide it!

Sketches like that do make me sad for Chris Farley. He was so, so funny.

[fearlesstemp.livejournal.com]

Little Anna usually saves us all from such things by volunteering good answers!