No Breathing in Class

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Me. (holds breath, pretends to lift up desk lid, puts head underneath, pants a bit, takes head out, and slams desk shut) And, that was the way to... (thrice)

My favourites are 'Strict', which is where the title comes from and 'The Register'. The first is an hilarious account of a ludicrously strict teacher who insists on 'no breathing in class!', much to the bewilderment of her pupils who try desperately not to incur her wrath. I definitely remember teachers at school who were insanely strict and spent a lot of time bellowing for no reason. Michael holding his breath for the first time is used sometimes in YouTube Poops because of how ridiculous he looks, however it is often difficult to fit into the video and generally requires some sort of relation to a storyline. An all-time classic. You'd be hard-pressed to find someone who couldn't relate to these poems about school life as they document familiar scenes like failing to take the register, horribly strict teachers, being made to enter a handwriting competition and diving off the top board. They expose lots of the daft rules schools sometimes have and the idiosyncrasies of power-crazed or incompetent teachers from a pupil's-eye view.Michael pretending to quietly close the desk is very often seen in Poops to indicate some sort of physical action. Most iconically, it is used as CaptainPlums' introduction to his videos. This book can be used across the curriculum especially in English creative writing, in art and also in looking at different perspectives in PSHE. The illustrations really capture the poems and enhance the storylines so could be used as an independent or as guided reading in KYS2. Ahh! That was a mistake; slamming the desk lid down! If you made a noise with the desk lid, it was... "Out! School Prison!" There was a school prison underneath the school hall where they used to string you up from the wall bars. [Holds hands up, as if hanging to the wall by some chains] FWOP! "Miss, I've been up here for 3 weeks! And there's rats... and they're nibblin' my toenails!" So I figured it out, what you had to do was put your thumb 'round the edge of the desk lid, so when it went down, it didn't make any noise at all. The whiny kid, "Miss, can I go and do some breathing?" "No, you've got all playtime to do it in!" More which in "Oh, go on Miss, oh go on!" "NO!" The other kids hold their breath. (holds breath, pretends to lift up desk lid, puts head underneath, pants a bit, takes head out, and slams desk shut) Boom! "Out! School prison!" FWOP! "Miss, I've been up here for..." YouTube Poopers like to use Michael's "survival" moment in their videos because Michael pokes a finger at the side of his head and makes a funny face.

Michael being strung up from the wall bars has been used to indicate him being captured, surprised or scared. Michael saying "Keel over and die" is used very often in YouTube Poops as many involve characters directly threatening each other's lives. It is arguably the most iconic words taken from this video for Poopers. According to a live stream, Michael said that this was a made-up story. It was inspired by an actual strict teacher that he had who never had a rule not to breathe. Many percussive sounds from Michael's performance are used as percussion in YTPMVs: The ka-boom! sounds of kids dying, the first time Michael slams the desk lid down, and the FWOP! sound when he is strung up from the wallbars.This is a wonderful and easy reading book combining poetry with mad anecdotes and comical illustrations. The content includes poems such as ‘Unfair’, ‘Strict’, ‘I think’, ‘Cool School’ etc. These titles should capture a child’s curiosity as it is a poetry book written from a child’s perspective. The poems are an introduction to the fun side of rhyme and would be a good introduction to creative poetry and writing. There is a rhythmic feel but the poems do not conform to a strict formula. All have funny anecdotes regarding topics from sport, strict teachers, and escaped class pets to gymnastic traumas. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2022-03-21 08:08:01 Associated-names Paul, Korky, ill Bookplateleaf 0002 Boxid IA40404518 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier urn:lcp:nobreathingincla0000rose:epub:0baae7e9-2809-4e37-8880-0dc41453bc1e Foldoutcount 0 Identifier nobreathingincla0000rose Identifier-ark ark:/13960/s23hd8xgfft Invoice 1652 Isbn 0141300221 Lccn 2003428938 Ocr tesseract 5.0.0-1-g862e Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 1.0000 Ocr_module_version 0.0.15 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-NS-1200176 Openlibrary_edition