Quotes from Work (pt. 6)
This afternoon, I tried to play a “Gestures” type game with the middle school students. The goal of the game was to creatively pair up verbs and adverbs in order to give the kid a goofy action to make while the other kids tried to guess it. Sounds fun and educational, right?
I asked each of the students to write a verb on one slip of paper and an adverb on another and then turn the papers in to me. I reminded the students that a verb was an action word and that an adverb was a word that typically described an action and usually ended in -ly.
Here are the words exactly as I received them from the 22 students (they didn’t know what each other had written):
Verbs
Jumping
run
run
runing
Draw
run
pull
Jump the Border
play soccer
jump
A Hobo sleeping
RUN
Jumping a person
Running
running
running
barfing
Kick
SIng
Running (with a heart dotting the i)
hand hit’s face
Jump
Adverbs
lovely
rapidly
lovely
rapidly
slowly
quickly
madly
quickly
slowly
Swiftly
purfoundling
silly
swiftlllyyyy…
fastly
Fastly
qicly
lonly
weirdly
gently
Goal
(plus two more that were neither appropriate nor adverbs)
Kids, that’s why school is so important.
For links to parts 1-6, click here.
I was laughing and cringing all at the same time!! I am quite encouraged that you a) Could STILL give the definitions of verbs & adverbs b) Encouraged education c) Are getting a taste of what it’s like to work with crazy Jr. Highers
Great to see you doing well!!
Not, and never, and never ever ever verbs. Not, and never, and never ever ever verbs. I think you taught me that.
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