Startling+Students

Startling Statements:

 these are all different words that describe the word ** startling. **
 * Startling **: surprising, astonishing, shocking, amazing, astounding . ..

Statement ** : ** declaration, announcement, account, assertion, proclamation. . .  description words that illustrate the word **statement. **



**How do we work with Startling Statements in the classroom? **

Startling statements are great conversation/discussion starters in the classroom, especially if the statement is either coupled with a visual, or if just presented as a visual without verbal explanation. Think about the automatic affect this particular visual has on your thinking process. Does this picture play towards your EMOTIONS (serenity verses fear)? For most people, this is the first thing we think about because we immediately associate sharks with fright, mean, and horror.

Conversation starter: Why is it that we are afraid to swim in the ocean just because sharks live there? Is it because we have been bitten by sharks and are afraid to swim, or it is because we have heard of shark attacks, and are afraid of being another STATISTIC? What are the statistics of being bitten by a shark in the ocean?



 **However, let us consider the fact that startling **


 * statements can represent quite the opposite **


 * <span style="background-color: #000080; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: 0px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">insinuation, rather than the obvious depiction. **


 * <span style="background-color: #000080; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: 0px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">Startling Statements are in essence, conversation starters. What other sort of statement could be **


 * <span style="background-color: #000080; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: 0px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;"> made about this picture? **

<span style="background-color: #9b0fc2; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 150%; line-height: 0px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">Startling Statement <span style="color: #800080; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 130%;">**<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 110%; line-height: 0px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">: ** <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 0px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">A deer is more deadly than a shark.

__<span style="background-color: #000000; color: #f7942b; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 170%;">EXERCISE SAMPLE: __

This is a great opening statement for students' to work with. What a crazy assumption to say that a deer is more deadly than a shark! However, this __<span style="background-color: #000000; color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 150%;">startling statement __ __leads to a beautiful open discussion for the students' as assumptions may vary.__

__<span style="background-color: #00ff00; color: #000080; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 200%;">JOHNNY: STUDENT SAMPLE- 5TH GRADE __



For example, Johnny is walking around the room (unable to see the statement on his back) and gets 5 other classmates to look at the statement (or could be a question) and give their responses to him. After the 5 responses (and not other conversation about the subject matter). <span style="background-color: #800000; color: #ffff00; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 150%;">Johnny then looks and makes his own estimation of choice. He then averages the "response" answers group discussion persists.

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