I have a small elementary cohort, called Newton2T, with a very fast student and a slow student. They were using class time to work on their essays sitting at the computer (i.e. typing – I use these classes as typing practice, too) – because they hadn't finished them as homework. The fast student, Brian, finished his 120-word essay in a matter of 15 minutes or so, and asked me, "What can I do?"
I suggested doing some work for another class, and he didn't like that idea. So I told him to write a story. "I can't think of a story," he complained.
"Write about about the alligator and the monkey," I said. He wrote this story – verbatim, below.
One alligater and monkey is in the box. One alligater name is Donald and monkey’s name is Jared Donald was hungry. So Donald look at Jared. Jared was scared. So, Jared prayed for Jejus. So Jejus gave super power to Jared. Jared was happy. Why?He was strongest in the world
Jared was King in the world. Jared have bad imagine. That imagine is jared kill Jejus and get EVERY SUPERPOWER. Jejus was very angry.. So thunder to jared. Jared fly to sky castle. And shouted for Jejus. “ Hey Guy Come on!” Jejus was SO angry. So Jejus said poseidon “ please help me, one crazy monkey have super power.” Poseidon said “ Okey dokey Yo!”
[daily log: walking, 6km]