You take advantage of the extra time and begin to grade spelling papers. In the silence, you wish students would use more legible handwriting.

As you finish the last of the spelling worksheets, your stomach makes a gurgling sound. Since you woke up late this morning, you haven’t eaten anything today. Your stomach’s insistence that you eat something becomes all that you can think about.


Since there are no students in school today, you decide to go home and make yourself something to eat.

or

You decide to go to the teachers lounge to find some food.