We Are Men!!

Randomly (meaning I know they didn't secretly plan this)...the boys in first period started singing "We Are Men" from Mulan. Somehow they all knew all the words-verses included. At the end, I gave them a quizzical eyebrow and they explained to me how cool of a song it was.....and sang it again.

Don't tell them- but secretly I was pretty impressed. :)

Really???

My students have a knack for getting worked up about the element symbols on the periodic table. They just do not want to deal with the fact that iron is Fe and potassium is K and tungsten is W and sodium is Na, etc. I explained that the symbols came from the Latin names of the elements.

Frustrated student: "we're in America! Why do we care about Latvia?"

Me: Laughing uncontrollably

Student: not getting it

Me: "you do know that they don't speak Latin in Latvia, don't you?"

Student: "They don't?"

Me: "No, they don't"

Rest of class: "No, you dummy- Latin is a DEAD language!"