January's End...

Focused Free-writing: 

If you had the power to hypnotize anyone for a day, who would you pick and what would you have them do?  Explain.

     Many times when students write about this topic, it is dependent of what role they play, in their personal life.  If they are a wife, they would generally choose one of their family members, namely their husband.  If they were a mother as well, they would also choose their children.  They would have them do whatever they do on a daily basis, clean, cook, wash dishes.  They choose their children or spouse because they want them to know exactly how they feel when they do all the household chores.
     Other times students (especially college students) will choose a rich person.  They will choose that rich person and have them deposit all his/her money into their bank account, which is a very smart move.  Imagine, you have control over a person for one whole day, you control what they say, how they think, their actions.  Students have become very smart today, especially when money is something very important to that society.  Money, Money, Money...

     Today I held conferences for the students.  They came up to me with their writing.  Maybe I'll write more about how the conferencing went.





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