What Did You Do This Summer?

Thoughts on a Classroom Cliché

By David Polochanin

As classes resume across the nation for the bright-eyed 1st grader and the drowsy high school senior alike, one of the more revealing questions a teacher can ask a student is one that seems so clichéd: So, what have you done over the summer?

Children will talk about it, write about it, draw it, and perhaps in the classrooms of some really creative teachers, act it out. It is such...

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