Weston is trying hard to get out of his schoolwork. It is a simple assignment. He looks at the different habitats and writes one reason why he would want to live there. He says it is too hard. he doesn’t want to live in any of those habitats.
I say, “Come on Weston, surely you can come up with a single good reason why living in the desert would be a good idea.”
Weston: “Ummmm. No. I can not. Why’da wanna live there? It has cactus to stab you. You would die of heatedness and you would get hot sand in your shoes. And what are you gonna eat? Big spiders?
Then he went on to explain that if the assignment was to say why he did not want to live in any of the environments it would be an easy one.
Grasslands: Oh, yuck. It’s all dewy, which makes it muddy. Where would you live? In the mud? What would you eat? MUD?
Jungle: This stuff is just crazy. No one wants to live there except naked people. That is why. Cause they have no clothes and can’t leave or people would make fun of them.
Arctic: Penguins? they want me to live like a penguin and eat yucky fish. No way. I do not want to die of blue freezing cold. No way would I live there. It would mean being a penguin or an icicle.
Woodlands: See. Another stupid one. Where ya gonna live? A tree? Would you even live? NO! You would get killed by an animal, animal, ANIMAL. Or by a bullet. I don't want to die, so I don’t want to live there and get killed by a hunter. What would I eat? Bullets? And double reasons, the animals WOULD EAT ME.
Frankly, if Weston moved to my neck of the woods, I would eat him too.
(This is his reasoning- word for word)
3 comments:
See now, here's where I'd say "fine, you can either write one reason you'd WANT to live in one habitat. Or, you can write a list of reasons you do NOT want to live in ALL of the habitats."
Silly boy, that would be way more work, and way more writing, and way more thinking. I don't think he's trying to get out of school work. I think he's trying to do more.
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I agree with Gwen. Sounds like he just made his own assignment. Funny boy! I think his reasoning is very sound. I hope he isn't looking to be a tour guide. ;)
Val
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