My student Seunghyeon, a 9th grader who insists of going by the English nickname of "Mr X," made a rather elaborate doodle on this TEPS listening answer paper during our listening class the other day.
When I asked him what it was, he told me it was an "ecosystem." I could see that. There are fish, oil, crabs playing some kind of sport on a beach, an man fishing, a buried fossil…
I think it all started because there was a question on the listening practice test that included a fragment of a lecture on the topic of sharks and their position in the food chain. So he drew the shark. The rest followed.
The doodle reminds me very much of the kinds of doodles I tend(ed) to do during boring meetings or classes (back in the day). Notably, I used to draw large numbers of buried fossils and skeletons on the margins of things. In high school, such skeletons even appeared on work that I turned in for my drafting (drawing) classes.
[daily log: walking, 7km]