**THROWBACK POST**
January 12 2016:
Have you ever had a 9th grade student ask you if he could use a just spoken comment of yours in one of his rap songs? Me neither! Until today! Yesterday and today I’ve been subbing with middle schoolers in Boundary Peak. They are reading a fictional short story about a man with a low mental age (as the story puts it) who has an experimental operation to increase his intellect. I had no idea this was the content we would be discussing …. Yet, my mind exploded with thoughts for us to discuss. I asked them why they think the characters in the story were unkind to the man … was it fear, fear of what’s different perhaps, or what?
Also asked them to think back to when they were young, toddler and pre-school age. Were they accepting of everyone or was that something that became part of their thoughts as they got older? Most agreed it was not there when they were young. I then asked, where do you think it came from? We talked about how it possibly comes from society, the ones we are most around when younger.
What did that student ask to use in one of his rap songs …. “Underneath this skin and muscles we are all the same.” So blessed I got to be there these past 2 days. May you BE just where you should BE and have the words flow from the heart …. xoxo
