Monday, September 29, 2008
An Actual Conversation
(Names have been changed to protect the innocent.)
During writing journals in my class I often give the students a prompt to get thinking started. Today I gave the question "If you were an animal what would you be and why?" After the allotted writing time was up I asked several students to share their answers. I got the typical assortment of "I wanna be a cat so I can sleep all day," and "I wanna be a dog so I can bite people," etc... But the best happened just this way:
Me: So Mark, what animal would you want to be?
Mark: I want to be a gorilla.
Me: A gorilla! That's awesome! Why a gorilla?
Mark: So nobody will judge me when I scratch my butt.
Me: (LOUD LAUGHTER)
During writing journals in my class I often give the students a prompt to get thinking started. Today I gave the question "If you were an animal what would you be and why?" After the allotted writing time was up I asked several students to share their answers. I got the typical assortment of "I wanna be a cat so I can sleep all day," and "I wanna be a dog so I can bite people," etc... But the best happened just this way:
Me: So Mark, what animal would you want to be?
Mark: I want to be a gorilla.
Me: A gorilla! That's awesome! Why a gorilla?
Mark: So nobody will judge me when I scratch my butt.
Me: (LOUD LAUGHTER)
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