Would You Be Scared?


Subject: Would You Be Scared?
From: Unicorn (unicorn@indenial.com)
Date: Sat Aug 03 2002 - 21:08:44 EDT


"Where Grandmother Lives"

When I stopped the bus to pick up Chris for
preschool, I noticed an older woman
hugging him as he left the house.

"Is that your grandmother?" I asked.

"Yes," Chris said. "She's come to visit us for
the holidays."

"How nice," I said. "Where does she live?"

"At the airport," Chris replied. "Whenever we want
her we just go out there and get her."

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"Would You Be Scared?"

I was trying to get my seventh-grade history
class to understand how the Indians must have
felt when they first encountered the Spanish
explorers.

"How would you feel," I asked, "if someone
   showed up on your doorstep who looked very
different, spoke a strange language and wore
unusual clothes? Wouldn't you be a bit scared?"

"Nah," one boy answered, "I'd just figure it was
my sister's date."



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