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I apologize for this not being announced earlier, but the website has been given away and is now under new ownership.

6/16/10 "Keying your brain"

Today was a strange day.. not much was accomplished other than filling in a packet that matched a power point. The difficulties with this were that many of people's packets did not have the right amount of papers and some were out of order. This, of course, was blamed on other people, like another packet we received which was blamed on a substitute teacher, although he had nothing to do with it.

This power point, of course, was saturated with every transition and sound effect MS Office has to offer and packed with irrelevant images that we were told were designed to "key your brains." In fact, we were told that Marsha was "keying our brains" 5 times in a 5 minute period.
If keying a brain is anything like keying a car, I might be able to agree with her.

To give you an idea of how irrelevant the brain keying images are, I'll describe some:

"Which of the following describes biodiversity?" = smiley face holding recycling can
"Why do scientists warn that a mass extinction is occurring now?" = brick bridge
"Why have poulations in most developed countries stopped growing?" = smiling flower
"What is a hectare?" = picture of starfish
"What is a placer deposit?" = tornado
"Which abiotic factors characterize a forest ecosystem?" = child on beach
"What might happen within an ecosystem when a keystone species is driven to extinction?"
= a nerve synapse w/ neurotransmitters
This one was my favorite, and I had to explain to her that it was a nerve synapse. I must admit, my brain feels extremely violated, almost as if someone key'd it.
After inquiring about this one and explaining to her what it was, she said:
Because everything that happens with a key species affects everything.
Stay classy, Marsha Sall.


..and to top things off, the New Paper count for today for each student is: 8
CONSERVING RESOURCES!

Monday&Tuesday tallies

Monday (6/14/10):
New Papers: 6
Tuesday (6/15/10):
New Papers: 8
Pangaea! (displaying graphic of modern continents)

Some of last week's

Monday:
New Papers: 7
Essence: 10
Tuesday:
New Papers: 3
Wednesday:
Your computer will not work - there is no Google today!
MY COMPUTER ARE BROKE!
I don't remember, when I was nine. I don't know what I knew then.
I'm not surprised, as you can't remember what you're supposed to be teaching.
New Papers: 7
Thursday:
New Papers: 1
Friday:
The last I heard, it was called, in short, The Soviet Union.
(For about 3 minutes the whole class kept trying to explain to Marsha that The Soviet Union was dissolved and that the majority of it was Russia, but she didn't believe us. She kept telling us that Russia wasn't a country and that it was The Soviet Union.)
Seriously, have you spent your whole life in a fallout shelter?

6/4/10 - essentially you eat the core of an apple

If you have an apple, it has a core that it grows from. So in essence, the core of the apple is what you eat.
The uterus is the womb from which you grow from. So in essence, you are a uterus.

PS: The reason there were no quotes from yesterday was because Marsha took her weekly vacation on Thursday (she skips once per week).

Essence: 11
Concept: 3
Recognize: 5

New Papers: 4

New Sall-Talk: prossibly, Tranobyl

6/2/10 - hydrolysis & placer deposit

..to separate water from the dioxide (explaining hydrolysis)
trioxidane?

What is a placer deposit? (displaying picture of a tornado)
(students all ask why there's a picture of a tornado)
...pictures are used to stimulate your brain (goes on to explain how 'concepts' & blah blah)
(student: So what is a placer deposit?)
It is a deposit formed.
how is babby formed

Concept: 8
Essence: 5

New Papers: 3

6/1/10 - Protons & Neutrons have opposite charges, France provides power for Europe

France.. supplies the nuclear ("nucular") energy to all of Europe... and certainly the whole country.
France, a-ah, savior of the Euroverse!

(student), may I see your pass? (student just entered the room 40 seconds ago)
(student goes up with pass)
(other student): She has already been here for 10 minutes.
Excuse me, Mr (other student), I do know that, excuse me, I know. (with 'I'm so smart smugness)
..the power of observation at its finest

...it has the protons and neutrons, which are attracted to each other because of opposite charges... it also has electrons, which...
You heard it here, folks.

Technically: 1
Concept: 3
Essence: 3
New Papers: 5

New Sall-Talk definitions added: extremendous, fridee

The Future of the Blog...and apologies....

Some of you may have seen a recent post in which I described some events in which I was wronged (by Marsha Sall) with some offensive and insulting language. As the issue regarding this post was eventually met with a compromise, I removed the post and apologize for any insults. I do not want this site to be one of insult.

EDIT: I would also like to mention that I received an email from the head of the science department regarding the described post after I removed the post. I don't want anyone falsely taking credit for this action, and this action was due to the kindness of my blood-pump.

I have not yet decided on the future of this blog, but recently its contents are starting to give me more of a feeling of this:


At the same time, some of the absurdity and recent events have given me a feeling of this:

(I like how this one mentions the trees)

..and it is because of these things that there is a possibility that website will end up like this:

Any feedback regarding this matter is welcome, whether you are a student, a fan, a teacher, a school administrator, or the Mighty One herself.

5/27/10 - Canada is Canada.. and the US

Canada covers Canada and some of the United States.
As Stephen Harper rears his head and comes into the air space of the United States of America, where– where do they go?........

Natural gas... works by... burning......(*stands waving arms with silence*) the production of the organisms.
Teaching should not result in the burning of students' minds.

Fuel may not exist because there will be no tiny little marine organisms.
..maybe things just aren't as instantaneous as you would like?

If you go out to the shore in the summer, you will see the oil. (referring to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico...those poor lions)
Student: Wait. Hold on. So you're telling me that if I go to the beach this summer, I will see oil from the spill?
Yes, they're expecting it to come through the current.
Attention all guidos, please leave the beach.

"uneven, uneven...uneven, uneven..."
The class was a little confused by this tourettic explosion.

Introducing...the new counter system!

As Environmental Science is a class about environmental science and one that preaches the values of ecological conservation, I think it is important for you to know that Marsha is the most wasteful person I know. I have received about 15x more papers in this class than any other class I have ever had.

To illustrate this abomination to our arboreal friends, posts will now include a number for how many papers each student received.

5/20/10: 7
5/21/10: I forgot to count
5/24/10: 8
5/25/10: 4
5/26/10: I forgot once again
5/27/10: Now I'm just being lazy


It is also known by anyone who has had this class before that Marsha creatively spices up her sentences by throwing in the words concept, essence, and technically (and forms of those words) because she believes this makes her appear intelligent. It should also be noted that these words are rarely correctly used. In addition to the paper counter, there will be a tally for technically, essence, and concept when they are improperly or unnecessarily used.

5/20/10:
Technically: 2
Concept: 5
Essence: 4
5/21/10: I got lazy again
5/24/10: I got lazy once again
5/25/10: I once again got lazy.
5/26/10: I once again got lazy once again.
5/27/10: I logged concept 6 times but was too lazy for the rest of them

Name-Change FAIL

http://www.ratemyteachers.com/marcia-sall/1570654-t

Marcia Sall

Science

Cherry Hill High School (west)

Cherry Hill, New Jersey

• Ratings: 7
• Average Easiness: 2.9
• Average Helpfulness: 1.1
• Average Clarity: 1.1

I wonder what her name will be next year after she's cut...I'm shooting for "Maria Sallsa."

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Rate Marsha Sall's Teaching!

Well, we all know that a certain someone is not keeping their job, but I think it is in the best interest of the state and its people that we rate Marsha's teaching career.

Go rate your hearts out:
http://www.ratemyteachers.com/marsha-sall/2317380-t

Remember to only rate/review once (I'm not sure it allows you to rate/review more than once), and remember to be as honest as possible.

As it is possible that Marsha may know how to use a computer and may attempt to vote multiple times in her favor, please comment on this post with your rating & review!

(It will be obvious what writing is hers, as words will not form sentences and every third word will be "technically", "essence", or "essentially.")

The Site will now be back in session

I have been lazy with the website for a while, but I can take it no longer. I could have obtained at least 30 horrible quotes today in one 72 minute block. I can't even remember them there were so many, but I'll sum up some of them.

Marsha tried to explain to our class how UV radiation will build up in organisms via bio-accumulation, once again proving that she has no idea what bio-accumulation is.

I had had enough at this point, and I asked her what she meant by that statement and after I reiterated what she was telling us numerous times she confirmed it as science and Sallology. I then proposed a hypothetical situation, in which UV radiation was reaching phytoplankton and shrimp ate the phytoplankton.

She told our whole class that the shrimp would eat the phytoplankton and therefore accumulate UV radiation.

She then even went on to tell us that if the UV radiation was to cause mutations in the phytoplankton that THE SHRIMP WOULD OBTAIN THESE MUTATIONS VIA BIO-ACCUMULATION. (something about this sounds familiar)

At this point the whole class was laughing, and she lost control, telling me "YOU TRY TO MAKE ME LOOK LIKE A FOOL JUST BECAUSE YOU CAN'T UNDERSTAND THESE THINGS!" Marsha then went on to yell more of "YOU JUST CAN'T UNDERSTAND THIS" and surprisingly enough, the class continued to laugh.

Now as I do think it is unprofessional to insult your students (not to mention in front of the whole class), I think it must be applauded how she managed to undermine herself in such a hilarious way.

I will now continue to update the site to try and show what this teacher truly is. Not only does she still fail to understand simple concepts, but she has gone as far as announcing to the class that a certain student "has a problem. His mother told me all about it. That's why..." I won't say any more of this as I do not want to embarrass this student, but this level of professionalism is beyond absurd. I have never known of a teacher who gossiped about a student's disease to a class.

4/01/10 Dolly-llama

They might take Dolly, a sheep, and mix it with a llama, or something like that (explaining Selective Breeding to the class).
I believe this may give us insight regarding how Marsha Sall thinks.

3/31/10 Nothing special... cats..

A triangle means change, because it's a Greek letter in the alphabet called Delta, and it means change.
Thanks for clearing that up.

How many of you know that panthers lived in Florida at one time?
The Florida Panther lives. (which isn't even a true panther).

Student: Do saber-toothed tigers still exist?
...I don't think so... I don't know every single animal.


There was more site-worthy material said today, but I wasn't able to transcribe it verbatim, so I will not be putting it on the website.

I also added a quote from the 29th that I forgot to add..enjoy.

3/29/10 Food alters DNA & splitting genes

Biodiversity is just another name, for, (reads computer screen), biological diversity.
That was deep.

(student asked why only a small amount of the estimated number of bacteria species have been classified)
It's just one organism on the planet. Because bacteria mutates, it absorbs the antibiotics.
Someone is full of fail.

So when a child does not eat much for 5 years its DNA will be altered, and it will not grow as tall.



Think today about all of the species that you know exist, and we'll learn some that don't.
BIGFOOT!

The dodo bird lived off of a tree. It was called a (?????) tree. It needed the fruit. It was symbiotic, and its droppings fertilized the tree. When there were no more trees, the bird went extinct.
Facts taken straight from Encyclopedia Britannica's Out-of-Your-Ass Volume.

...for example, if they don't go through the bottleneck, and the gene is split, then the offspring will have them.
Alright, seriously, what the hell just happened?

What animal do you want to go extinct?
Student: The naked mole rat.
I don't know what that is. Why do you want it to go extinct?
Student: -because they're stupid, fat, and ugly.

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3/26/10 Contradiction, Comprehension, & Confusion

Other Teacher: No teacher should have students as friends on Facebook.
I agree, it crosses the lines, boundaries.
Ms. Sall has tried adding students from our class as friends on Facebook.

These are bacteria. (picture of erythrocytes & leukocytes)
Student: Those look like red blood cells.
Yes, well, they do, but they are bacteria. They may look like blood cells.
This looks like a teacher, but it actually is not.

I don't think there's an answer here. It actually has no answer. It's how you think.
(She read a question-of-the-day off of a word document, and scrolled down to find that she forgot to find the answer.)
I like how this teacher is prepared for each lesson.

The stone wasn't from the island, so it must have been transported with advanced machinery. (referring to Easter Island)
There's no way they just carved the stone that was already there! Oh wait, they were carved out of tuff from Rano Raraku, the giant volcanic crater (on Easter Island).

Excuse me, eh, Jack, Zack, Mister, 'Jurremy'
???

3/25/10 Nothing special.. someone was on their best behavior..

Whenever you have a graph, the whole idea is to see what the graph is telling you.
Wow, this whole time I've just been staring with my mouth open at the pretty lines.

Aboriginals are considered the most intelligent people in the world. They walk around in loincloths.
HEY LOOK AT ME I'M NOT RACIST!