{"id":2344,"date":"2021-08-13T01:03:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-13T01:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=2344"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:34:39","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:34:39","slug":"overestimating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=2344","title":{"rendered":"OVERESTIMATING"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have a tendency to overestimate what my 8th graders are capable of reading or discussing. And I often assume they know certain vocabulary words only to find out that they have no clue.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The funny thing is, I am not the only one who overestimates what they already know. They do too!<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two examples from today:<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1) A young lady was wearing a <i>Playboy <\/i>shirt. It was under a sweatshirt for most of the day, but she came to my class after gym and was too warm to keep the sweatshirt on. She willingly covered up again when I mentioned it was against dress code, and then her friend said, &#8220;Ooooooo, how do you know what <i>Playboy <\/i>is, Mr. Gross?&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My reply: &#8220;I know what cocaine is too but that doesn&#8217;t mean I have ever used it.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Did she think <i>Playboy <\/i>was some underground, little-known porn magazine?<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2) I posted a Google slide with a quote from <i>Red Badge of Courage <\/i>to illustrate similes to the class and mentioned that Stephen Crane is a famous American author.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One young man blurted out: &#8220;If he&#8217;s so famous, how come I&#8217;ve never heard of him?!&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My reply: &#8220;Because you&#8217;re in 8th grade.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am going to hope he was joking &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a tendency to overestimate what my 8th graders are capable of reading or discussing. And I often assume they know certain vocabulary words only to find out that they have no clue. The funny thing is, I am not the only one who overestimates what they already know. They do too! Two examples [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2344"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2345,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2344\/revisions\/2345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}