Alhamdulillah, SS class was a breeze/blast with 3I. I heard my colleague complaining to their form teacher in the classroom about how rowdy they were in class and I feared the worst and tried to mentally prepare myself for it. The optimist in me thought that they would have tired themselves out by the last period, which was mine. And I guess I was partly right. haha. Came in class and spent a good 5 mins getting them ready. I asked them to take out their SS books and put it on the table. So much ‘resistance’ (more like bo-chap-ness) from them at the beginning but I persevered. I walked around, asked individual students and then switched off the fans to speed up the process. They stopped being too loud, settled themselves a little, and I let them greet me. (They actually greeted me a few times before but I just went “blergh no no. keep standing, don’t greet me.” hahaha.

Some of the students normally lay their head on the table and sleep, and I would wake them up or they would, when it’s something interesting on the screen..but they were good, being responsive to my questions and asking questions themselves. (hi-5s myself) All in all I think I did quite well with the story-telling, accompanied by the awesome prezi presentation that I’ve put together earlier for 3H and I guess it really helped that I did the lesson before. I think it builds my confidence on the subject matter. I also let them listen to the Cranberries’ Zombie and told them that it was about the conflict of northern Ireland and showed them Omagh, a movie about a bomb blast by the IRA in the town of Omagh. 

I think I did pretty alright, tackling a rather difficult class by keeping them quiet/glued to their seats/listening to me. I know when I was looking at them I was like “yessah Nadiah, you did well.” hahahahha yay me.