I was teaching a lesson on figurative language and poetic devices. Every time I teach a poetry unit of any sort, I always use music because that's what kids know without realizing music is chock full of poetic elements. As an assignment, students were assigned to go home, listen to their own music, and find lyrics that contain figurative language of some sort. I told them that while I am very well aware that most songs these days have some type of inappropriate reference or language, that the portion of the lyrics turned in as their work must be clean of such things.
I then made the mistake of saying, "I know what music is like...I probably listen to a lot of the same music as you guys."
Laughter erupted.
Either I'm starting to look really old, or being a teacher automatically makes me an alien that doesn't do or like "normal" human things...
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