By: Brendan Constantine The Opposites Game for Patricia Maisch This day my students and I play the Opposites Game with a line from Emily Dickinson. My life had stood a loaded gun , it goes and I write it on the board, pausing so they can call out the antonyms – My Your Life Death Had stood ? Will sit A Many Loaded Empty Gun ? Gun. For a moment, very much like the one between lightning and it’s sound, the children just stare at me, and then it comes, a flurry, a hail storm of answers – Flower, says one. No, Book, says another. That's stupid, cries a third, the opposite of a gun is a pillow. Or maybe a hug, but not a book, no way is it a book. With this, the others gather their thoughts and suddenly it’s a shouting match. No one can agree, for every student there’s a final answer. It's a song, a prayer, I mean a promise, like a wedding ring, and later a baby. Or what’s that p
It's my quote!!!
ReplyDeleteI couldn't agree more. Amanda is easily substituted for Lady Gaga here.
ReplyDeleteAhahah... yes, this is Georgie-inspired. And Drew, I think this needs to be a part of our "we're moving to the East coast bitches" daily pep talk.
ReplyDeleteI realized later that my post made me seem really self absorbed. Its not my quote, but Gaga's. It just feels like mine because I find myself repeating it daily. Especially when kiddos are giving me a really hard time. Use it at will friends!
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