Mr. B's Dictionary - "Put on Blast"

Put on blast

verb

1. To embarrass or insult by revealing personal information.

"Da'Qwan put Sariah on blast when he told everyone she's pregnant."

I Hate Research Paper Time

I loathe research paper time. Here are a few examples as to why. Typed verbatim, with an implied [sic] to each.

"Author Miller was a cool dude. He was all against racism and didn't like communism, neither."

"Mark Twain is a god writer. He grew up poor, but went to Yale and Harvard to write Tom Sawer and Huck fine."

"I'm telling you about a author name Babra L. Park [Barbara L. Park - author of the Junie B. Jones children's novels]...She already published over 100 books, so she out there. She recived over 70 awards for her books, including 45 children chocie awrds." [Complete and utter BS. Park has written 43 novels, including a few picture books. She has received the Children's Choice Award 7 times, and the Parent's Choice Award 4 times.]

I'm not quite that stupid

Today, one of my students whispered to another (loud enough that I could hear, even though he didn't know), "I'm gonna' just keep asking questions so we don't have to read." My first thought was to ignore his questions, but that seemed like the wrong response - I want to encourage curiosity, even if it has an ulterior motive. So I happily answered his questions, provided they were on topic, and spent a few minutes discussing the history of World War Two (because we were reading informational texts that were written during that period).

However, after one answer, I interjected that we didn't have time to keep going off on tangents, because I would be taking up the note-taking guide I gave students at the beginning of the next class, and I didn't want them to have to work on it at home.

The class about lynched him the next time he opened his mouth.