little fish

Happy Tuesday everyone,

I'm starting a new (sort of) series titled, "little things". It's just little posts about things I felt like writing about or sharing that doesn't fall under the other main blog categories. It's sort of like an "other" category. Yes, it is all lower case (little) and yes, it will most likely have the word "little" in every title. We'll see. There are a couple things in the category "little things" above so look around.  Now back to your regularly scheduled program . . .  Or something.

I had a notably good day today (I wrote this last Tuesday) in my English 210 class. We were doing an activity my professor refers to as "Chalk Talk" (We do have one chalkboard as well as several whiteboards) where we print out a number of quotes from the reading we received as homework, then we post them on the boards and write comments.

The first quote I responded to was, "The Sachem is looked upon as a great tree under whose shade the nation sit." to which I responded, "A unique way of describing hierarchies." along with a little doodle of a tree. Luckily there was a green marker but I had to steal the black marker from the board on the other side of the room.

The second quote that stood out to me was,"The great fish swallow up the small..." to which I responded, "I like the imagery." along with a little drawing of a small fish being eaten by a bigger fish.




Along with responding on at least two quotes we were also required to respond to at least one response. So my two fish became three fish! I was really excited to have someone join in on my doodles as it was something different I was bringing to Chalk Talk and it was more on the whimsical side so it felt like a risk. As we started to sit down my professor looked around the room to take inventory and acknowledged (I don't remember what she said) my fish. I laughed and said something to the effect of the new fish that joined my school (as in school of fish). Another student hearing me, added the biggest fish as he sat down (I think his motivation was to be the biggest fish rather than to join in on the fun).


"Oh no. My poor little fish." (That read like a children's book) I (stage) mumbled with concern for little Herman (The name of the smallest fish).

Later when we were discussing the quotes and responses one of the other students referred to the second quote as, "That quote where all the fish come from." to which my professor affirmed, "Yes, the source of the fish."

Totally Ky

P.S. During the beginning of class I doodled my teacher because I really like the shape of her hair and her outfit.