Florist

Because Friday was PD Day and Valentine’s Day fell on a Sunday, Thursday in class we used Valentine’s Day as a jumping off point for writing. I wrote “Valentine’s Day” on the chalkboard and asked the students to come up with word associations, think of their five senses, or think about how people feel on that day, and so on for a “brainstorm” session. I listed what the students called out, some of which included: candy, red, wishes, cards, lonely, love, Cupid, nervous, rings, movies, happy, hearts, roses, chocolate, kisses, hugs, Hershey’s, sad, alone, gifts, birthday (a student has a birthday on the 14th), February, flowers, and, well, you get the idea. The students were then to pick an idea from the list and write about it. For a suggestion, I mentioned that they might want to pick a POV (point of view) from something on the list. Perhaps the POV of a florist (I don’t know how these ideas come into my head, but they do). Gumgirl incredulously says “A florist? Florists put down floors, don’t they?”

Um, no.