Fires Chapter 5

Chapter 5 was really interesting. There was a lot of discussion about students being prepared for class and knowing the material they are responsible for.
In this chapter a student named Lauraliz wrote something that stopped me dead in my tracks and made me laugh out loud. She said that she had a strategy to fool her teacher into not calling on her. She would pretend to be taking notes or re-reading a page, basically making herself look busy. I used to do that all the time in high school, especially in my math class because I figured that if it looked like I was busy the teacher would be impressed and feel confident that I knew what I was doing so that he wouldn't have to call on me. Needless to say my trick usually worked. When I'm a teacher I will definitely look out for students like me!