When talking about reasons why immigrants came to the US, one of the students said escaping from a natural disaster is a reason to immigrate to the US. So I asked what is an example of one of these natural disasters. Right away a student's hand shoots up and she yells, "HURRICANE KATRINA!" Yes, that is why people immigrated to the US, to escape the hurricane.
In a different class we started talking about how to make glue (it worked - somehow) and I commented that they used to use horses. One student then asked if gorrilla glue comes from monkeys, my response was that crazy glue comes from the criminally insane. A different student then asked about glue-sticks and I knew it was time to change the subject.
Also, yesterday the kids took a Twitter Quiz on Native Americans. I had some fun with some of tweets and user names. Like General Custer's user name was "NeverStandingAgain" because he had his "last stand" at the Battle of Little Bighorn, and Sitting Bull who was Hunkpapa Lakota had the user name "iloveitwhenyoucallmehunkpapa" sadly only a handful of the kids got the Biggie reference.
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