Good hard intro piece. I have never subbed in school before because of two reasons: 1. I don’t have the certificate, and 2. I am deathly afraid “math” would be involved.

Small crit: The second sentence has Occasionally and recently real close together. Spatial adverbs should have some space.

Overall great job!

I’ve had subs like this… normally they just let us goof off, the ones who were afraid of words like “math” and “AP.” One minor edit: in the last sentence, the class owns the attention, so that needs to be in the possessive form. Otherwise, nice job!

I’m at a loss on this one. I can’t find any particular faults, aside from the grammar critiques already cited. For some reason I’m not connecting with the piece, which is odd cause I’ve felt the feeling working as a TA. I think the tail end of that first paragraph maybe bounces a little too far out from the moment, as opposed to staying in the moment and on his fears and doubts. This is purely an opinion/matter of taste and is very squishy and subjective, so take it with several grains of salt.