Brock, 7B - Monologue Draft (5/26/13)

"I look very weird in this suit but my concern is not how I look right now. My problem is that I am in front of an enemy and I am dressed up in a Spiderman suit and he is holding a gun." 

-Brock, #7B, monologue assignment


I'm biased, granted, but my students are brilliant. This draft of a monologue was written in about 20 minutes at the end of the school year.

SPIDERMAN 

STUDENT-WRITTEN MONOLOGUE 

BASED ON THE PHOTOGRAPH "SUPERHERO: SPIDERMAN" by Agan Harahop

I look very weird in this suit but my concern is not how I look right now. My problem is that I am in front of an enemy and I am dressed up in a spiderman suit and he is holding a gun. I don't know if he thinks I am the real spiderman or if I can shoot webs. I really don't know if he is going to run or if he is going to shoot me.

I should pretend I am going to shoot him with webs or try to just tackle him and take his gun. Maybe I should just pretend I'm on his team and charge the other way with my webs as my weapon. There are multiple options but right now I think I'm just going to charge the other way and pretend I'm on his team, that way I don't get shot. If he just shoots me then I am done for. I will have to try to pull something off before he shoots me. I could just leave and tell him I'll go get my uniform, or tell him good luck. Otherwise I will have to attack him, and he will probably get to me before I lay a finger on him because he has a gun and there is a whole army of people here and I don't know if I could take them all.

I probably can't because I can barely take one.

-Brock, 7B

Your Elegant Future

To my students in May:
You’re leaving this time, this place. It’s May already. (That’s a verifiable fact.) It’s an analysis of the fact to say that May has 31 days and includes Mothers’ Day, Memorial Day, and the spontaneous holidays that occur after months of Wisconsin winter marking the slow upswing into summer (the first weekend when everyone gets sunburned if they go outside). Tara countdowns the days every morning in homeroom and we all deal with what that means to us. We’re together every day for 185 days and then we’ll never be together again, which no one understands, really. Even if we think we know what that means, we don’t.

For some of you, this might be the first time your daily routine has been disrupted completely, but for all of you, including me, we all decide if that time that is perfect or useless.

One of you looked up during silent independent reading time and asked what you should do if you have a question mark inside of parentheses...inside of a question (requiring a question mark?)?  If there’s a question mark inside of a parentheses inside of “question mark”, you end up with a sentence of question marks.

A sentence of question marks is as elegant as the future.

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