The students work in groups, creating fictive dialogues involving characters from The Great Gatsby and The Crucible. I question one group's commitment to the note-taking aspect of the activity.
Me: "Are you guys writing this down?"
Alan Lackey: "No. We're going to ad lib. Because, as we all know: The greatest minds ad lib their greatest inventions. As such, Albert Einstein ad libbed the atomic bomb."
Me, internal: "WTF?"
What's all this then?
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2 comments:
School's started hasn't it? Come on now...
=) I'm currently a sophomore and its nice to get some insight and see that the teachers are going "wtf" inside their head sometimes too.
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