Next the sound of drums started pounding out of the speakers. Then the lights went out and laser beams started shooting all over the place in different colors. The drums got louder! The lights got brighter! Then this guy ran onto the stage. He had on a baseball cap, and he was wearing this long purple cape with sequins all over it. He had on sunglasses too, even though he was indoors. It was Mr. Hynde, our old music teacher! He quit after he went on that TV show American Idol and became a famous rapper! “He’s not a poet!” Andrea complained. “Yo! Yo! Yo!” Mr. Hynde shouted. “Let’s get down and get funky! ’Cause I’m so hunky! Let’s all do the monkey!” Mr. Hynde did a monkey break dance move, spinning on his head. Then he got up and started rapping again: “It’s good to be back at the Ella Mentry shack. This school is whack, like water off a duck’s back. Quack, quack, quack, quack!” Everybody went crazy! Mr. Hynde started hitting Mr. Klutz’s bald head like a bongo drum while he sang a rap version of Green Eggs and Ham.
