Saturday, August 19, 2006

The Folds



If you ever want to create extreme anxiety in a classroom, ask los studentes to fold a paper into sixteen squares. Even as you're demonstrating, the screams that emanate from them as they try to follow are pitiful.
"Stop! Please, wait for me!"
"Hamburger or hotdog? Hamburger or hotdog!!???"
"Start over, I beg of you!"
I walked them through therapeutically, reminding them to breathe. I started over repeatedly and reassured them that no child would be left behind during the folding, but they were rattled for the rest of the period.

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