I'm just yoking :)

I don't really have curriculum I can use to teach my students. I was given 4 novels and then told to cover them as well as grammar, writing, and vocab. Alright no problem, I thought. It was suggested that I use SAT words for vocab since one of the main goals of students at IST is to pass the SATs and get into college. Easy enough. I decided to start the vocab lessons out fairly easy in order to gauge where my students' were at. Abduct, foil, rash, wrath, and yoke were the 5 words I selected to appear on the first vocab quiz since they are all pretty common throughout our novels; however, when I asked the students to use each of the words in a sentence to make sure they were understanding them, next to the word 'yoke' over 50% of my students wrote, "My friend told me a funny yoke" or "It's ok I was just yoking." I found this highly amusing and quite comical :) .....on the other hand, I now realized exactly how far we have to go before the end of the year!!