Update for Friday, May 15th

Many interesting thoughts & opinions about what folks think about whether being able to read minds would be a good power to have and what people might do with that power have been shared in conversation elsewhere. I’m updating this post rather than starting a new one so we can finish gathering more of your ideas here. Please leave a reply to add your thoughts to the comments (or add to your previous comment). Students may want to return to this to add a comment after listening to part 2 of the story and doing some reflection (the links and other updates will be in the updated list of this week’s assigned activities).

Enjoy Victoria Day.

We’ve started the short story, ‘Sevety-Six Dollars and Forty-Nine Cents’ by Kwame Alexander, and Monk seems thinks he can hear what people are thinking.

If it’s true
(and maybe it is)
Monk’s a mind-reader!

Would YOU want the power to read others’ thoughts? What would you do with it? Leave your responses as a comment, but make sure you’ve listened to the introduction and part 1 of the story (see our this week’s assigned activities for the links). Then spend some more time today making more progress on those projects. I’ll be glad to see everyone for our class circle Thursday afternoon.