Talking to 7th graders requires some patience and faith. Faith that there is a point to what they're saying, and, given enough time, they will eventually get to it.
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
7th Graders
The room is dead silent, everyone is bent over their journals, when a student comes up to me at my desk. He tells me he is fighting off a cold and begins to describe his symptoms. He's sneezed, he says; he coughs, he tells me; and he has a lot of mucus. Finally, he gets to the reason he's telling met his: he wants to call his mom to have her make a doctor's appointment for him later.
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You mean just 7th graders are prone to take the conversational scenic route? I think I've met a lot of 7th graders in my time--including me, I'm told.
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