A little Halloween Story
Tuesday, December 4th, 2007
It’s long past Halloween, but I thought I would share a little anecdote with you. As usual when a Western holiday comes around, I plan an English lesson around it. For the last part of my Halloween lesson, I gave the kids the above handout and let then design their own Jack o’ Lantern face. Many students wanted to put their favorite characters on the pumpkin, like Spongebob or Doraemon, but by far the most popular choice was the face of Mario. In some classes more than half of the kids were making Mario. It’s cute and all but I wanted to see the students do some original designs. So in the next class, while explaining the activity I told them not to draw a picture of Mario but rather to draw a picture of their best friend. One little boy handed in this picture…