I told my Creative Writing students to get up and make a big circle so we could play a memory game-- and so all the kids stood up and started arranging themselves: pushing desks out of the way, and shuffling between them-- except for one girl, who did not stand up-- she sat in a desk in the middle of the circle, head down, doing something in her notebook; finally, she picked her head up and looked around at everyone standing around her . . . and with a sheepish grin she held up what she had been so diligently working on-- she had taken my directions literally and drawn a circle.
When I read the first half of your sentence, I was wondering why you would have the kids draw a circle for creative writing, and it took me a minute to get the picture you posted--I think its better to be slow sometimes, just because it makes things funnier when you figure out how stupid you are.
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