Budding comedian is funny!
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Scene: classroom of 4th-grade students (9-10 years old)
Activity: Ms. Linda is wandering around the room, explaining How to Build a Story. We've discussed realistic types and fantasy types.
Ms. Linda puts "story-starter" picture on the overhead -- young boy in pajamas opened closet door, startled by long, skinny tail poking out; height tail comes from suggests animal's rump is shoulder-level to boy.
Ms. Linda asks for suggestions: What's inside the closet? Various answers -- "Belt!" "Snake!" "Boogie-man!" We take a class vote, and decide to make it a boogie-man. Cue following conversation:
Ms. Linda: Okay, the boy opens the closet door and there's a boogie-man inside. Then what happens?
Male student: They start dancing.
Ms. Linda: Wait... it's a boogie-man and they start dancing?
Male student: Yeah. (Raises hands to shoulder height, index fingers extended, starts shaking his shoulders and shimmying in his chair.) He's a boogie-man!
Ms. Linda starts laughing, retells the joke to the rest of the class who didn't hear it. Ms. Linda explains to male student that he just make a kind of joke called a 'pun', even though he doesn't know what that is, and that it was a good one. Laughs a few minutes more.
Who knows? Maybe 15 years from now, there will be a young comedian who realized he had the talent when he made Ms. Linda laugh, and she thought it was good enough to share with others. I won't know because I don't know his name; he isn't one of my direct-serve students.
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And, apropos of that, check out this page of Scientists tell us their favourite jokes. My favorite is this one: A new monk shows up at a monastery where the monks spend their time making copies of ancient books. The new monk goes to the basement of the monastery saying he wants to make copies of the originals rather than of others' copies so as to avoid duplicating errors they might have made. Several hours later the monks, wondering where their new friend is, find him crying in the basement. They ask him what is wrong and he says "the word is CELEBRATE, not CELIBATE!"
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Scene: classroom of 4th-grade students (9-10 years old)
Activity: Ms. Linda is wandering around the room, explaining How to Build a Story. We've discussed realistic types and fantasy types.
Ms. Linda puts "story-starter" picture on the overhead -- young boy in pajamas opened closet door, startled by long, skinny tail poking out; height tail comes from suggests animal's rump is shoulder-level to boy.
Ms. Linda asks for suggestions: What's inside the closet? Various answers -- "Belt!" "Snake!" "Boogie-man!" We take a class vote, and decide to make it a boogie-man. Cue following conversation:
Ms. Linda: Okay, the boy opens the closet door and there's a boogie-man inside. Then what happens?
Male student: They start dancing.
Ms. Linda: Wait... it's a boogie-man and they start dancing?
Male student: Yeah. (Raises hands to shoulder height, index fingers extended, starts shaking his shoulders and shimmying in his chair.) He's a boogie-man!
Ms. Linda starts laughing, retells the joke to the rest of the class who didn't hear it. Ms. Linda explains to male student that he just make a kind of joke called a 'pun', even though he doesn't know what that is, and that it was a good one. Laughs a few minutes more.
Who knows? Maybe 15 years from now, there will be a young comedian who realized he had the talent when he made Ms. Linda laugh, and she thought it was good enough to share with others. I won't know because I don't know his name; he isn't one of my direct-serve students.
= = =
And, apropos of that, check out this page of Scientists tell us their favourite jokes. My favorite is this one: A new monk shows up at a monastery where the monks spend their time making copies of ancient books. The new monk goes to the basement of the monastery saying he wants to make copies of the originals rather than of others' copies so as to avoid duplicating errors they might have made. Several hours later the monks, wondering where their new friend is, find him crying in the basement. They ask him what is wrong and he says "the word is CELEBRATE, not CELIBATE!"
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