29 mo’ day. Never has that seemed so far away as this year. Here’s the sort of crowd I’m dealing with… We’ve been practicing with outlining in preparation for (shiver) research projects. More on that later. One of the in-class activities we did involved a brief excerpt (I actually got it from the textbook!) from an article about twins. The excerpt talked about the differences between fraternal and identical twins. I. Identical twins A. One egg splits into 2 B. Identical genes 1. 2 girls 2. 2 boys C. Occur once every 250 births II. Fraternal twins A. 1. 2. 3. B. C. Their job was to fill in the second half of the outline covering the part about fraternal twins. Of course, in seventh grade, nothing is as easy as it sounds. Immediately we veered into, “I knew these twins who…” and etc. Then… “I’m a fraternal twin!” “Yes ‘Nancy.’ I finally realized (only about two months ago!) that your brother is one of the pains in my heinie earlier in the day. I hadn’t realized you were even related you are so different.” Now Nancy is one of those people (in my experience they’re usually girls – sorry)
That reminds me of those great SNL skits about the Sofa King. You know, how the prices are "Sofa King" low, the deals are "Sofa King" great, etc. (You obviously have to say those phrases out loud to get the joke.)