This Year's Class Picture By Ms. Geiss Summary

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In the story of this Year’s Class Picture, you can see that Ms. Geiss is a little bit crazier than others that you see in the world today. She’s trying to teach zombies that don’t really know what is going on, also she handcuffs the students to get them in her class. She risks her own life to save the zombies. Finally, others say she is crazy, but also a really kind person.
In the story, you can see that she’s trying very hard to teach ZOMBIES. That doesn’t make sense to me because why would she teach them if they can’t really listen to you. At first, she talks about how a new student joins the class. Then it goes on how she had to handcuff the kid to bring him into the class. “Ms. Geiss dropped the pole and handcuffed the kid with her free hand and sat on his chest.” She is crazy because she is risking her life to just have another kid join the class. She also states that she has to sit on the kid to get them situated, something bad can easily happen when she is doing that. She also has to pull the teeth out of the student's mouth which seems disgusting. “Pulled his teeth out with a pair of pliers.” She also has to clean the student's eyes out because bugs lay eggs in their eyes.
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She starts by asking them if they can tell her what the numeral is on the board. “One, if you can say it put one hand up, finally Sarah J thrusts her hand up in the air.” When she tries to teach the kid’s most of them are doing other actions. “Say one, Todd chews on the rubber ring, Kristen trips over the chain falls face first on her desk, Samantha chews on her own clothes.” The students finally understand especially Todd. “Todd can you tell us how the dolphin helped and hurt the boy, Todd says it hurt him.” He seems like the only one that’s actually understanding something which is crazy to believe that a zombie is understanding

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