Dear Tasha,

Yo Tasha I am very serious about going out with you I want to go out with you because you are the girl I want to be with my whole life and If I go-out with an other girl I will love you more than her and you are very sexy and you will be my one-true love and if--

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What was I thinking confiscating this note before Brian finished writing it?! I had no idea he was a love-letter-writer but apparently he has written many this year, and usually while other teachers have been teaching and caught him. This prompted Jarod to really embarrass the poor boy and tell me all the girls that have been the subjects of these letters. I especially like how he really followed the RAFT response format that we taught for ELA test prep... Creating a thesis and then backing it up with a "because" statement. I'm so proud.

Then Jarod tried to give me a hug and Brian was like "he is always trying to hug all of the teachers he has a crush on." I had to pry myself out of his grips.

No Melanie today. Cross your fingers.

Stay tuned for excerpts from the fantastic Editorials my class wrote this week.