Perhaps that question is a good reflection of my teaching methods. With my Middle School classes, I usually warm them up with the Conversation Cup-a paper cup filled with different questions from the sensible to the crazy (Did your parents ever have children? Would you rather kiss a crocodile or a bear? The bear always wins.). Today, they wrote the questions, hence “Are you crazy?” We also had “Do you like Jack?” a question that was picked out of the cup by Jack (the same Jack that declared “I am toilet!”). Hours of fun to be had by all!
Then they had to write down an answer to a “Do you want……..?” question. There were some surprising results.
Do you want to be more beautiful?
Steven: No I like not beautiful. Beautiful isn’t beautiful.
Do you want to be more intelligent?
Angela: Yes. Because I think I’m not intelligent. So I want to be more intelligent.
Do you want to be rich?
Brenden: Yes I want to be rich. Because I will buy many foods like chocolate cookies.
In the same lesson I discovered that they think England (for some reason they are taught England rather than Britain) is big…..so there is still a lot of work to be done.
Then they had to write down an answer to a “Do you want……..?” question. There were some surprising results.
Do you want to be more beautiful?
Steven: No I like not beautiful. Beautiful isn’t beautiful.
Do you want to be more intelligent?
Angela: Yes. Because I think I’m not intelligent. So I want to be more intelligent.
Do you want to be rich?
Brenden: Yes I want to be rich. Because I will buy many foods like chocolate cookies.
In the same lesson I discovered that they think England (for some reason they are taught England rather than Britain) is big…..so there is still a lot of work to be done.
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