After reading a math problem that stated: Megan read 12 books a week for 8 weeks. How many books did she read?, 6th grade teacher Bob Matulich wished aloud that he could have a student like Megan.As the weeks went on this imaginary Megan grew more and more real and more and more hated by the kids in his class. Bob knew there was only one thing to do... get a Megan in his class.
After learning her lines, Chandler presented herself to his class as Megan Chandler.
The kids were immediately blown away at the "coincidence". After asking a bit about herself, "Megan" said, yes, she did in fact love to read. Once during the 8 week summer, she read 12 books a week, and not baby books either... Harry Potter, Chronicles of Narnia...
On to math. Just to see where she placed, Mr. Matulich asked, "What is the greatest common factor of 64 and 192?"
Without hesitation, "64." Several "no way's" from the class and "another one".
What is 4 to the 5th power? Slight hesitation and some thinking, "1024".
The class went wild!
Then they moved onto writing dialogue for an upcoming play. Chandler, err Megan, quoted Shakespeare and Joyce Kilmer, threw in some big words that caused the kids to reach for their word bank book of words they don't know.
For some reason, she was called out of class at that point. I think it was because she ran out of lines!
I think the students were very impressed and now have at least an imaginary role model.
Now we have to get back to REAL school! Sorry Chandler, I'm not feeding you the answers first this time.
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THAT WAS SOO MUCH FUN!!
My a great line was when I walk in and a kid whispers to his friend, "She looks like a geek!"
It was awesome, that was the look I was going for. The sad part was that there was this very sweet girl who wanted to talk and be friends and be parteners in projects and she asked if I was going to camp....
oh well
sorry, spelled "partners" wrong.
I know, brilliant know-it-all Straight-A student Megan, how did I not catch that?? 8-)
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