An outtake from Friday:
Went over new vocabulary words with my sophomores. I give them sentences with the words in them so that they can guess their meaning (see Blog, day four). When I ask the kids to read their responses a loud, they often mumble.
It's annoying. So I do my best to mishear them. Mostly, it's for comic affect, but sometimes it enhances the lesson...
The word is acrid.
INT. CLASSROOM - DAY
Teacher - What's the next word?
Boy - "Mumble mumble"....
Teacher - Did you say diaper?
The Class LAUGHS.
And yes, that's what I "thought" he said.
Boy - I said acrid.
Teacher - Oh, acrid. What does it mean?
Boy - I don't know.
Teacher - Actually you do. I thought you said, "Diaper", right?
Boy - Yeah.
Teacher - Have you ever smelled a diaper?
Boy - Yeah, it's nasty.
Teacher - What do you think acrid means?
Boy - Nasty?
END SCENE
And that in a nutshell is why I still like teaching?
Signing off.
Birds-Eye
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