Each moment an adventure...
You've heard the old saw about if a monkey sat down at a keyboard and typed for a million years, it would reproduce the works of Shakespeare?
I have a student whose brain works the same way.
You just never know what's going to come out of his mouth. I could say the strangest of words, like, say, I don't know, "effervescent," and out will come some strange mishmash of ideas and imagery-- kind of like a John Dos Passos novel, but drawn completely from pop culture and in particular Nick at Nite.
Frustrating? Fascinating? Entertaining? Endearing?
Depends on how well rested I am on any particular day.
Today? I was tired.
Labels: the teaching life
5 Comments:
Nick at night huh. Didn't I just click a "Horshack" Reference in order to make this comment?
Why yes you did! But I actually saw the show when it was new.....
That makes it part of my childhood, not a pose!
Right, Right me too, believe it or not. I'm not questioning your "O.G.-ness" just being...well one of my students I guess.
And how old is this kid?!
15, I guess. I just wonder at the task of following his train of thought.
Perhaps the best metaphor for his train would be the train in The Polar Express when it hits the ice and isn't on the tracks anymore. THAT kind of train-- all over the place and out of control.
It's exhausting to even try to figure where he's going next. And he really can't seem to help himself.
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