Explaination of Christmas

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So today half of my M5 class (11th grade) was out "attending a sport event" (whatever that means) so instead of teaching the few students that were in class just to reteach them the material next time I decided to pull up pictures of Christmas things and have them explain what they saw.



This is how it went:



I started out easy and just asked then "What is Christmas?"

Response: "Birth or Death of Jesus...We aren't sure...but definitely something to do with Jesus."



Next question I pulled up a picture of Santa on his sleigh and asked what this was.

Response: "That's Santa."



Me: "Who is Santa?"

Response: "Old fat man who has tiny children slaves who make toys."



Me: "Why does he make them make toys?"

Response: "To give to children."



Next I showed them a picture of a Christmas tree and asked them what it was

Response: (proudly states) "A CHRISTMAS tree"



Me: "Awesome, what kind of tree is it?"

Response: "CHRISTMAS tree."



Me: "No it has a name"

Response: "Winter Tree...it grows in Snow." Then one girl yelled in the back "Pine!"



Me: "Why do we decorate it?"

Response: "You put lights on it so Santa will know how to get to your house."



Next I showed them a Christmas Pickle and asked them why we put it in the tree

Response: "Reindeer snacks." "Santa is fat and needs to eat pickles."



Finally I showed them a stocking and asked them what it was

Response: "Its a sock you fill with candy."



Me: "Why?"

Response: "Because kids like candy?"



Me: "Do all the kids get candy or just the good kids?"

Response: "Just the good kids."



Me: "What do the bad kids get?"

Response: "MEDICINE!!!!"



Me: "hahaha no....close..."

Response: "rocks?"



Me: "Sort of...they get coal, you know what coal is right?"

Response: "Why would you give bad kids coal? Its cold for Christmas right? Don't they want coal to burn to give warm up their houses? I dont understand why you'd rather have candy than be warm."



Talk about making lemonade out of lemons.

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Comments

[Liz]

This is awesome!