The Ups and Downs of a 26 Minute English Class: 4/23 by Carly S.

I’m telling you having class at 9am should be a good thing because it means we got an extra hour of sleep, but for some strange reason everyone always comes into class a little more tired than usual, and Wednesday’s English class was no exception. The first words heard coming out of peoples’ mouths were “I’m tired” and “I want to go back to bed”. However, we all quickly realize that we should wake up because we have to take a quiz over a book that we more than likely didn’t even open. Before even taking the quiz the arguing begins, and of course, it has absolutely nothing to do with The Princess Bride. Voss lectures the whole class on how you pronounce “gif” while Taylor is in a huff trying to explain to Mrs. Gill how to properly pronounce “Pinterest”. Right about this time Jaclyn gets to cut part of class to go and “practice” her petitions with Father Bob while Jacob insists on looking at his grades online, which was to Mrs. Gill’s dismay when she says “looking at your grades won’t improve them”, this to the dismay of Jacob. Still before the quiz has even been passed out, Mrs. Gill argues with the class on the difference between yelling and saying shut up but eventually abandons the idea and tells Steven to shut up instead of kicking him out of class. And yet, the quiz still hasn’t been handed out even though class is 26 minutes long.

Finally, Mrs. Gill attempts handing out quizzes over the book’s intro with complete silence, which never actually works. Right on cue, Cory starts asking Mrs. Gill about how he wants to respond to the last quiz question sarcastically instead of a “serious paragraph worthy response”. Finally. Silence. Haha just kidding totally a joke we all know that ACC English 3 is never quiet. Hopefully you didn’t fall for that one J. Of course, a quiz wouldn’t be complete without a saint quote, and the saints may not have been on Mackenzie’s side because she forgot where Florin was and whether or not it actually exists, and then the class got into yet another argument/heated discussion on whether or not saint quotes were really worth the time and energy. In the words of Mrs. Gill: “The saints choose you, and the saints may save your life”. Then she talked about how Leah’s saint was St. Joseph, who only wished for her to pause in reverent silence. Lucy’s scribe notes are read from the previous day while some people were still trying to take their quiz, which of course Mrs. Gill started yelling for them to turn them in. Adam naturally counterattacked saying how he couldn’t form a general opinion over ANY book that could have impacted his life at one point or another #really?! After Lucy’s scribe notes had been read, Mrs. Gill discussed how an abridged book doesn’t exist…or does it? Steven: “Does this book actually exist?” By this point it was time to leave, so Mrs. Gill addressed how we needed to put our chairs back in rows because she didn’t trust her English 3 students in a circle.