Scene: My classroom.
I've asked one of my 12th grade classes to tell me about other movies they've seen that fit our discussion theme of the problems characters have fitting into their society.
Christina: Juno has a character who doesn't fit into her world very well. She had a hard time dealing with everybody around her because she did everything differently.
Me: Good point. Can you explain what she did that people disagreed with?
Tom (urgently): Miss Huth, that girl, Juno, reminds me of you.
Me: Tom, you're interrupting Christina now . . .
Christina: That's okay. I can't wait to hear this!
Me: (pause, head tilting, eyes squinting, botox-needing furrow deepening): She reminds you of me because I'm a 16-year-old pregnant girl?
Tom (laughing bemusedly): No. She talks like you.
Me: Hmmmm . . . really? Please do explain.
Tom: She's got a quiet, low voice. And she says interesting things, but not in a simple way. Her vocabulary is way up there.
Josh: Exactly! Like when you turned around what Mike said before, and suddenly we all knew you were right. We just had to accept what you said because we couldn't argue with it. It made too much sense.
Justin: You also remind me of that character in Blades of Glory . . .
(Bell rings.)
I've asked one of my 12th grade classes to tell me about other movies they've seen that fit our discussion theme of the problems characters have fitting into their society.
Christina: Juno has a character who doesn't fit into her world very well. She had a hard time dealing with everybody around her because she did everything differently.
Me: Good point. Can you explain what she did that people disagreed with?
Tom (urgently): Miss Huth, that girl, Juno, reminds me of you.
Me: Tom, you're interrupting Christina now . . .
Christina: That's okay. I can't wait to hear this!
Me: (pause, head tilting, eyes squinting, botox-needing furrow deepening): She reminds you of me because I'm a 16-year-old pregnant girl?
Tom (laughing bemusedly): No. She talks like you.
Me: Hmmmm . . . really? Please do explain.
Tom: She's got a quiet, low voice. And she says interesting things, but not in a simple way. Her vocabulary is way up there.
Josh: Exactly! Like when you turned around what Mike said before, and suddenly we all knew you were right. We just had to accept what you said because we couldn't argue with it. It made too much sense.
Justin: You also remind me of that character in Blades of Glory . . .
(Bell rings.)
2 comments:
Blades of Glory? So maybe the Jenna Fischer character, I assume? That just made me laugh...out loud.
I thought is was clear that I was Will Ferrell!
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