P or N

Today was an intake day at the school. What is an intake day? well it is a day where we receive a bunch of new students who wantto study for some time. During such days, teachers are prety fortunate. we only teach 2 hours but get paid for 4.5. we do what we call workshops on specific things. Kind of easy and no marking involved.

My workshop was with the most advanced classes in the school. Our subject:understanding the media.

I chose to do an activity that was not the same old newspaper thing but to do an article about how the media can shape how we perceive things. Our topic was BEER. it was popular with the students. We made a list of all the things that we thought of when we thought of BEER. The list said some things like this:

Simpsons
pub
bar
drunk
party
fun
dance
friends
hangover

after our brainstorming i had them catagorize each of these words into whether they were positive, negative of neutral. i put an N for negative, P for positive and Ne for neutral.

Now, some of these words could have been both P and N or even all three options. So, i wrote next to one of the words P or N. soon after this i noticed my students chickling about something. One of them said i had written something funny. i was embarrassed because i thought i had made a silly mistake. I checkedtheboard andfound nothing. they continued to laugh and then decided it was no problem andi should continue. so i looked back once more... i knew there was something. Then i saw it. P or N? porn? OOPS!

they thought it was so funny. i had to laugh. i then replaced my Or with a dash and the lesson continued. i guess i could have made a lesson of it about subliminal messages... but i didnt.