So I started To Kill a Mockingbird with my students today and it's been....fun. I don't know what it is with this group but I feel like I have to drag answers out of them.
I was trying to get them to characterize Boo Radley when I gave them the following hint:
"Look at the line from the beginning of the book '...Dill first gave us the idea of making Boo Radley come out.' What does that say about Boo?"
For a couple minutes my question was met with blank stares and fish faces (the hesitant opening and closing of mouths) when one of my darlings blurted out the answer he thought I wanted:
"Oh, he's gay!"
...I nearly peed myself I was laughing so hard.
I was trying to get them to characterize Boo Radley when I gave them the following hint:
"Look at the line from the beginning of the book '...Dill first gave us the idea of making Boo Radley come out.' What does that say about Boo?"
For a couple minutes my question was met with blank stares and fish faces (the hesitant opening and closing of mouths) when one of my darlings blurted out the answer he thought I wanted:
"Oh, he's gay!"
...I nearly peed myself I was laughing so hard.
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