Thursday, February 10, 2011

Is Pakistan a religion?

This is just too good NOT to share it.

Today, in English 9, the students practiced two very basic skills. They were asked to 1. use the internet and databases to find out information on a country from which their ancestors come so that they could 2. write a paragraph using 5 facts. Pretty simple, right?

Well, one young lady was unsure of where her ancestors hail from. I told her to just choose a country, because the goal was that they researched and wrote. So she says, "India. That's a country right? Or is it a continent?" That was funny number 1. I was actually impressed that she didn't choose somewhere like Mexico. Anyway ... she uses World Book Advanced to do her research.

She's a pretty chatty young lady, so I had to hush her several times. As I'm walking around to check their progress I read on her paper the following:

"Islam is on of the countries with the most Muslims."

I can't make this up, people. She wrote it. When I pointed it out, it took her a moment to register the problem. She smiled, laughed, and fixed it. 1 minute later she says:

"Is Pakistan a religion?"

Everyone, and I mean everyone, in the room busted out laughing at her. Thank God she laughed at herself too. And that she figured out it's a country.

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