Hello again. I came back home last week and I have been in Lagos all week. My school had their half term break and Batch B corpers graduated on Thursday. Congratulations to all of them. I did bring back my continuous assessment test to grade while I was home but unfortunately, no one could find my JS1 Social Studies test. I really wonder what happened there. Anyway, I brought my SS1 Government test home and the nonsense that some of them wrote is really quite amazing. I honestly do not understand if some of them were attempting to write English or mid sentence, they switched to Yoruba and were just writing Engruba or Yorulish. Anyway, I was confused and I just had to put photographs up. Even though I have about 40 students in this class, there are like 6 different versions of what to expect. They all copied each other and they copied each other so dumbly that when a lot of them were writing the characteristics of socialism, most wrote, “Labour is not.” Anyone reading that will know that’s not a complete sentence but hey, I guess when you’re too busy copying other students, there is no time to read. My highest score was 9.5/15 and of course, the lowest was 0. Combined with their quiz, I have students that actually have 1/20. I know they can redeem themselves during the exam since it’s 70% of their grade but what is the likelihood of that happening? I think I have to change my teaching style to make the class a lot more fun so that hopefully, they can retain more information that way.

So the last time I was home, I bought sweets for my JS1 students and nothing for the SS1 because I thought they were old enough not to be bothered with sweets. Wrong! My friend, Toyosi told me that they will probably still be happy to receive them and she was right. I distributed the sweets in JS1 first and they were very well behaved. I moved to SS1 and they became a bunch of 5 year olds. I even had a couple of students from another class claiming to be my students so that they can get sweets. I honestly didn’t think it was that serious. I did buy biscuits for my top scorers in the test, hopefully, that will give the other students an incentive to work harder next time.

So this is a shorter post but I thought I should send out a warning. Do not watch Battleship, unless of course you want to waste your time and money. I saw it over the weekend with a friend and we both thought the movie was absolute crap. It builds up, and then builds up a little more to nothing. The preview actually makes the movie look good but trust me when I say that it was nonsense.

On the plus side, my younger brother graduated from secondary school on Friday. His graduation was actually the reason that I came home. Congratulations Rotimi J. The ceremony was really nice and when I looked at the students in his school in comparison to those in Otanile, the differences are really a lot.

Dunni and Rotimi

Rotimi and I at his graduation

Different versions of the test 

Anyway, thanks for reading and have a wonderful day. I got back to Osun today so I should have a new post at the end of the week.