Agenda
1) Warmup: What is your favorite game?
2) The Basic English Challenge
Homework
None
Today we decided to finally answer, once and for all, the question of who is smarter: boys or girls. Kids compete to see who could write the best dictionary-style definitions of the following words:
letter
word
sentence
paragraph
essay
vowel
syllable
Sounds pretty simple—the kids all know what these words mean. But defining them is quite a challenge.
After a partially scientific study of four 7th grade classes, here are the results: Girls two, boys one, one tie. Girls are smarter than boys by one . You go girl(s)!