These Ugly Kids Don't Belong To Me

This is my third week substituting. I finally got an English class. But it is 6th grade English and the kids just keep letting me down. I wonder if I will ever get a class that gets their assignment and is just quiet and does their work. They will be quiet for the few moments that the other teacher is in here threatening to call their parents, but they do not take my threats seriously. So that they cannot take advantage of the fact that I do not know their names, I decided to write down random names. The hope is that they will not want to get each other in trouble and subsequently ending up getting themselves in trouble.
Well, one can dream, can’t they?
I have just looked at my manuscript that is to be the second half of my screenplay. Today is the 24th and the last time I wrote was the 21st. I had a brain fart I guess. It would be different than the original story so I’m trying to rethink it. And I’m having trouble. The way that the story originally went, the guests that were coming were to determine whether the adoptive parents are fit to keep the main character. They’re like representatives from the state. But now, the adoptive parents are going to have a baby, and the guests that are coming are representatives of a boarding school where the main character will be spending the rest of his childhood to make room for the new baby.
So what she I do, or preferably, what movie should I watch? I know what I want them to say. I just don’t really know when or where to put it. And the last thing that I wrote just sounds cheesy. Another problem that I am having is that I am trying really hard not to let the characters sound like very well known characters that have graced the screen in another movie. They do not look like them in my head, but they kind of sound like them. But I guess that it is unfair to think that you own the market on evil stepparents.
I am at school now, and although I have not done anymore than change one word, cross out several others and change the date, I have used a different pen. I hope that it will be able to bring a freshness to this story that comes with changing pens. “Fresh Horses, “ I think it’s called.
Just last week I had a class that pissed me off so much that it inspired the feelings required to write at least 2 pages of prose! And it was only half the period that I was there! This first class today has turned out to be relatively reasonable. Relatively. I look around and half of them are gone! Anyway, I’m hoping that by the end of the school day, I will have felt enough emotions that will inspire me to write another 2 or 3 pages.
So, I’ve just made it through the second class period with some problems here and there. But it still has not topped the list of the worst school that I have subbed for. Well, it’s not the school but rather not the worse classes that I have subbed for. So far. Fortunately, I got a planning period. So there are no students for an hour and a half. Usually around this time they find some other class for me to sub but no one has bothered me yet.
Unfortunately, I just recently realized that I did not bring the script that I was changing, so I can’t work on it right now. I know where I am supposed to be, but I’m not sure of the order. So instead, I will read a book.