Inner City Lacrosse

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Great pictures of lacrosse program at Whatley. GO BULLDOGS!

"Read When Frustrated"

This is a list of good moments in teaching that keep me going. I think this is a good practice for anyone. As Thoreau said, "Simplify, Simplify, Simplify," and these are my little miracles that make it worth if for me * Aujune giving me her book about “her story" * Lois reading his poetry at the end of Roxbury, “I Live"* Reading Mango Street in Brighton and having one of the girls talk about her neighborhood saying people talk all about us but they don’t really know us *“WAWAWEWA” Class holding up backwards signs that said, “We love Gail!” *Taylor jumping up and down at Penalty kick against UMS* Darion telling me thank you at graduation and yelling out in class, “I believe in awesome. * "Circumstances separate the heroes from the chumps.” ~Shelby * All the crayons still being in the box after getting my new box + 1 extra given by Andell* Today after the fight Torren read the word of the day from his seat in the second row and said, “Look Ms. Yeilding I am reading from here." * Mr. Smith—“today we’re in the business of freedom!”* Jacklyn finding the rest of the 7th period's papers in Corey’s binder, after the fight the day before* 6th period discussing, Souza quote, "Work like you don't need money, Dance like no one is watching. Love like you've never been hurt, Live like it's heaven on Earth," and saying, those are words to live by! * Ray bringing me his "I’m Free" paper in the hall on my way to ISS * Reneika apologizing for talking back to me, saying her parents didn’t raise her that way. * "We're black folks, we're on time, even when we're late." ~Tommy * "Ty Waatsa in da house" or "What's up Snoop Doggy dogs??" (realize this is a kindergarten kid on the Zuni reservation.)* Darius, the pundit and in the clouds, staying the last day of school to finish The Walk Across America essay contest w/o qualifying for the sweet prize. * Shyla quoting Napoleon Dynamite, "Got shocks, pegs, lucky, taken off any sweet jumps???" Monique telling me she passed the grad exam* Evan saying he was prepared for his next class because of me* DAndre typing in vocabulary for his blog, "dread head rock star" * Quontavius, "I like this class * Caviana and Davida's UTOPIA * "Freedom is being able to let something go." ~Jaqueria/lil boosie* "That's Ms. Yeilding's RESPECT ball, and it goes there!" ~Trent