The question of the day today was What is something about you that would surprise most people? Since we are working on the journalism profile unit where writers must interview another student in the class, I'm trying to ask questions that will help them find a starting place, as well as model appropriate follow-up questions when they share their answers.
It was a successful question; we found out all sorts of interesting and intriguing things about the people we have been working closely with for the last 8 1/2 months. One student with fiery red hair wrote that two things people were often surprised about were that she didn't dye her hair and that she was straight.
"Really?" asked another kid.
"Really," she confirmed. "When I tell people I'm straight, they always ask, 'Are you sure?'"
She laughed, and we did, too. I personally marveled at how different the world is for these kids than it was even just a few years ago. In my sixth grade classes there are 3 kids who identify as transgender and several whose preferred pronouns are they/them.
The next student's surprising fact was that their mother dated a professional basketball player. "I don't know which one," they added.
"You don't know which basketball player or which mom?" asked another student.
See what I mean?
Life Lesson: The arc of history is long, but it bends toward justice. ~Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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