Okay. Long story. Bear with me. Yesterday, having received a new batch of 6th graders for Exploratory German, I was giving my usual spiel (german word!) about the bins of books they can peruse if they finish their work early. New students naturally gravitate toward the comic books first, so I explained why these may not actually be the easiest to understand. The response I got was a bunch of WIDE EYED GIGGLY boys and girls, a few, a bit red in the face. Thinking I had broken the cardinal rule of not turning my back to a new batch of students as I had just done, I was pretty sure someone had just managed to flip the teacher off or some such thing. Not one student could tell me what was so funny until one brave little boy sheepishly said, You said a boy part. WHAT?????? I couldnt imagine why such a word could have slipped into my speech, and as it was time to dismiss, I managed to dismiss the thought as well. Until 11:48 last night in bed. It occurred to me what had happened. I had referred to the Charlie Brown and the Peanuts books. PEANUTS!!!!!!!!!!!! PENIS!!!!!!!!!!! OMG. It gets worse. In telling John this scenario this morning, I pointed out that they can really learn a lot of German by looking at these comic books, but that the text in the Peanuts books is particularly LONG and HARD. Grinning ear to ear, John just shook his head. OMG. Parents be assured, I will now be referring to this genre of books as a whole and only as comic books. Ill leave the other vocabulary up to the Health teacher (thanks, Jody Henry-Stephens)! I hear there is a lot of giggly down there!
Posted on: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 09:26:46 +0000
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