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
So many about this interview are completely ridiculous that is hard for me to pic a favorite. However, I think I've narrowed it down to the part where Nancy asks Alana how they came up with the name for the magazine. Wow. Theta's really are the smartest!!
ReplyDeleteThis video clip absolutely made my day and I agree with Georgie. Where do I even start?!? My favorite part was when she held up the magazine for the camera...that didn't zoom in and then she was like "no, ok! Nevermind!" It's like a terribly awesome skit of saturday night live.
ReplyDeletealso, this article is such a perfect example of people who we are jealous of who in reality are absolutely miserable in their lives, despite their beach bods. I'm eating a guiltless bag of doritos right now..happy as a clam.