Mary Lou Buschi
Today’s Objective
Students will experience synesthesia by tasting a birdcall, touching blue with their index fingers, while witnessing language as shape form from the mouths of their classmates. They will accomplish this by memorializing the dead in groups of four. Group A will carve a Chinese jade grave suit with only one verbal prompt. Group B will cut a diamond out of the dead—keeping in mind the importance of facets and how light will enter. Group C will construct a rise of hummingbird wings by following written directions independently. Data will be collected on sheets of origami, while students showcase their projects during a gallery walk where they will practice social skills that are considered “normal.” Students will be able to define normal—be it behavior or expected patterns of probability distribution, by solving for “x” within the context of a problem; be it 33, banana, heart, or gun.