Ethnography

Ethnography

May 9, 2016

AP Study Week

On my final day of observation coach is absent because he is at a track meet. His substitute is a man in his mid-30's I think. The period starts off with pretty girl and delta nununu talking about a recent senior prank. Apparently someone had brought a couple of baby chickens to school and the administration was busy rounding them up around the school. I am glad to hear that the girls are worried about the chicks and agree that it was a bad prank. Green shirt, blonde girl, and sweatpants are absent today and the sub passes out the assignment (a practice test).  Black shirt and Everest are talking about someone being racist during this time and the three girls (pretty girl, lady, and long hair) are chatting together. After the assignment is passed out the sub stands in front of the class and observes them. Sophomore is talking about dual credit classes and says which of his classes had finals or just a paper due. Galaxy asks purple stripe if he is going to take the AP test. The sub then moves to the side of the class and looks at the board, which has some information on it about the current bell schedule. Sweatpants then walks into the class and the sub gives him the practice test. Sweatpants moves to sit down, but not before greeting tooth and galaxy.

For some time the class is working on the practice test and the class is silent. Everest gets out his binder and country girl starts to ask for help on the test. The sub moves to the big group and talks to them for a bit about the nature of the test before going back to his desk. Sweatpants gets up from his desk and gets another paper from the sub before sitting down. The class is mostly quiet but there is the occasional mummers of people asking each other and confirming assignment answers. Sweatpants gets up again and talks to the sub before heading out of the class. The usual big group is comparing answers with each other while galaxy glances over to them. Purple stripe, since the begging of class until now, is on his phone. Delta nununu gets up to throw away trash and I note that there are about 4 soft drink and 3 water bottles present in the class. Tooth glances over to the big group who are muttering a discussion to each other. Delta nununu is on her phone and Everest starts to hum for a bit before talking to black shirt. Someone's phone starts to violently vibrate and the class laughs a bit at the disturbance. The class then continues to work on the practice assignment (except purple stripe who is on his phone) and the sub is reading a book. Mustache and country girl are talking to each other when sweatpants comes back into the class. He makes a comment to the sub and to galaxy shirt before sitting back down. I can hear Everest, black shirt, and sophomore discuss the practice test together while I see sweatpants tearing apart a piece of paper for some reason? It is interesting to note at this time that country girl is currently wearing glasses; the previous times I came  to the class she was not wearing them.

The sub is still reading his book when sweatpants gets up from his desk to throw away the paper he was ripping apart. He then takes out his headphones and puts them on; him and purple stripe are now the only people in the class not working on the assignment. Suddenly, a lady comes into the class and talks to the sub for a bit before asking "anyone over 17 that want to donate blood?" disrupting the class peace. The students say no to the lady and I hear sweatpants jokingly say "I'm 14". After the lady leaves the sub makes a joke about giving blood, resulting in some giggles. The sub then goes back to reading his book while Everest, black shirt, country girl, and mustache start to discuss the test. This leads to a huge discussion that envelops the whole big group who eventually go on the topic about shooting guns. "country girl. its not rocket science" Everest says to country girl's opinion of the subject. The big group then goes back and forth discussing the test and talking about the presidential candidates. During this time lady gets up and hands in her test with long hair doing the same.

I begin to hear some comments from the big group: "we didn't learn most of this" "I know" "Nah I don't remember this". I feel for the guys. Quiet lady gets up and hands in her test. Pretty girl is the next to turn in her test and talks to the sub, throws her trash away, and exits the class. The big group is now talking about drinking and getting a beer gut. The sub checks his watch and galaxy shirt glances over to the big group. The sub then gets up and announces "you guys should finish up, you got 5 minutes". Delta nununu, tooth, and sweatpants turn in their paper (delta signs something on the desk) while the big group is talking about snacks. Pretty girl then walks back in the classroom and the sub goes over to the big group and collects their papers. The students then start to pack up and leave when the bell rings, ending this report.

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