Miss Norton was a
top-notch teacher with a stellar
reputation. Some students thought she
had a pair of eyes in the back of her head, since she could nail the
offender. But this one?
Almost crazed by this unknown kid, Miss
Norton was always blindsided
by this unknown marksman. And this sharpshooter was no imbecile: He KNEW when to spit a
wad of paper at her.
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| Metaphor for football |
But Miss Norton was
no imbecile either. She knew the direction and side of the
room. She knew the students in that
row. And she had seen the children on
the playground. And she had one kid picked
out.
Getting a stack of
black construction paper, she dipped one in India black indelible ink (non-toxic) to hand out to the kid she thought
was lobbing spit wads at her. She wore a white blouse on the black construction
paper day.
She turned her back
to write on the board, and sure enough, she felt the wet glob.
Pulling the loose
blouse to see the wad, sure enough, there was the indelible ink mark.
All the class
snickered and laughed. Only one had ink
stained teeth, the one sniper. Hah! Gotcha!
I could not figure out to delete or remove the dance movie trailer. Just close your eyes, okay?
I had two boys who were the sharpshooters in my class. I caught them both.
Also, The Christmas Story clip with Miss Shields above really has nothing at all to do with anything, but I love the movie and particularly Miss Shields. She and Miss Norton would have been best friends.
Every Wednesday, Delores from Under the Porch Light provides Wednesday Word participants with six interesting words. Then we all set our brains afire, trying to work around this challenge. The words are bold and underlined above. Click on the lonely train tracks above to access her site!
