I was teaching a lesson on using words other than said, and I was demonstrating how choosing a different word can effect a story. I sternly remonstrated (in a tongue-in-cheek manner) a student for sitting impolitely, and the rest of the class suggested words like "yelled", "scolded", and "snapped".
One of the words on our previously-generated list was "admitted". On the spur of the moment, I grabbed a pencil and snapped it in half, so that I could have something to admit to. The students were shocked.
"Mr. Graham! Why did you do that to a perfectly good pencil?!?" Allyanne demanded.
"Oooh, excellent," I thought. "My class, what is Allyanne doing right now?" I said, expecting an answer like yelling, or shouting. "Isabella?"
She thought for a moment, then smiled up at me. "Overreacting?"
I had a severe case of the giggles at Allyanne's indignant expression, and Isabella's markedly innocent one. Awesome.
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