In charge!

Yesterday was a pretty uneventful day at the school. I organized the middle school artwork. Mrs. Powers teaches four different middle school classes, so it was up to me to organize all their artwork into three folders. Keep in mind, a good amount of the art work wasn’t labeled with which class they were in, and some of the work didn’t even have a name on it. It was up to me to figure it out. This took me about an hour to sort everything thing out. It was tedious to say the least. Mrs. Powers was having trouble finding me productive things to do, so she would assign me little tasks like putting a tray of pushpins back into their box, or taking all the art pieces off the high shelves to she could give them back to students. They may seem petty tasks, but somebody has to do them. She also told me to prepare a powerpoint presentation to show some of her art foundations classes. The purpose of the presentation is to familiarize the students with certain artists that will be mentioned or portrayed in the movie Pollock that they will start watching tomorrow. At the end of the day, I came back to Mrs. Powers’ art class after lunch to find that she had disappeared. I thought this was unusual because usually when she leaves the classroom she locks the door behind her, but this time it was unlocked. Mr. Atkinson then came in and told me that Mrs. Powers had to leave and that he would be the sub. I was then in charge of what the students were to do that class. Instead of giving in to the students, who all wanted to “free-draw” during the block, I gave them an assignment so that I could show Mrs. Powers that they had actually done something productive while she was gone instead of “free-drawing” (which I’m sure would consist of about 90% talking and 10% drawing).