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Surprise!- Chloe Lloveras- Blog 3 T2- AEP 10


The first week back to AEP class started out as quite a doozy! To the surprise of many, Miss Disa was absent! Because of this, the following few sessions turned out to be quite interesting.

On January 8, we went straight into essay writing. We were supervised by Sir Whey, who combined us with the Filipino students to stay in our grade 10 classroom. Because of this setup, we, unfortunately, couldn't play any word games. Nonetheless, it led to a productive session because I managed to finish 1 of the 2 essays assigned (the one about cement and concrete production) by the end of the period. 

The next day we were met with a different substitute teacher- Miss Jonna. The entire 2 sessions were dead silent as we were all anxious for the spelling bee she'd be giving later in the day. In total, we saw her for 4 periods that day. Wow! 

In the meantime though, we answered the crossword Miss Disa sent us about the next set of vocabulary words (unit 9) we'd have a quiz on next week. I finished it in with 10 minutes left to spare for the first period. The only part that took a long time was actually defining the 19 words listed. However, for the most part, I knew majority of the words like "gnarled," "chastise," and, of course, "ardent." ("Pride and Prejudice" lover here!)

Afterwards, I completed the second essay about the production process of bricks. This one was a bit harder because it was my first encounter with the prompt unlike the cement/concrete one. In the end, I still managed to finish it by the end of the session. I opted to type all of my essays in "Google Docs" to make the process easier. That day, AEP ended swiftly and quietly. 

One week later and Miss Disa was finally back from her vacation. Hooray! It was nice to see our cheerful teacher brighten up the mood after many long and tiring days of schoolwork. Since the machine for the board was missing, we decided to study unit 9 of vocabulary again. I repeatedly took the vocabulary test online and memorized each definition until I was confident enough for the quiz.

Fast-forward to the next day and we, at long last, got to play "Squardle." Even though it wasn't the tricky Monday-morning version that is fairly longer/harder than the others, we were all just happy to finally play a word game to warm up our brains. I was definitely rusty as it took my brain a few minutes to process each word. I definitely felt like a turtle that day. Haha!

After completing that, we did our vocabulary quiz, which everyone got a 10/10 on. Yay! Later that day we went over the concrete/cement production essay. To serve as our dictation essay, Miss Disa read aloud a high-scoring sample essay. We copied the essay in our notebook sentence by sentence and read each paragraph when finished. Then, after taking a short break, we went into discussing it into even more detail, covering the various verbs and sequence words that could be used. 

Overall, these last few sessions of AEP have definitely been quite surprising and equally productive. I'm honestly relieved that Miss Disa is back and can't wait for things to start getting back to normal. 

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  1. Miss DisaJanuary 22, 2024 at 5:34 PM

    Thanks for such an informative blog Chloe, yes its impossible to get a sub teacher :) Since by now you're probably realizing that AEP is not about what we do its who we are and how we do it. I'm glad to be back to the classroom too.

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