“Name the Tudors we’ve been discussing,” I asked S., my hand
hovering over the white board to record the names she gave me.
Quickly she responded with, “Henry VIII, Mary, Elizabeth,
Edward.”
“Great!” I said. “Now put them in order.”
“I did.”
I started to correct her, then realized that she had named Henry’s
three children in order…by age.
“Ah,” I said. “Put them in order of their reigns.”
She chuckled and said “Edward, Mary, and Elizabeth.” Right
again, and a great reminder to me that specificity can be important when asking
questions.
2 comments:
Also a reminder of how many different ways things can be grouped or arranged! Will is especially into the Tudors and tried to get me to watch the show, but I found that it featured a few too many creative torture/execution devices for my liking... But I bet he could come up with a bunch of different ways to arrange those folks!
I'm sure he could! For instance, you could arrange some of the Tudors into categories depending on how they died! ;-)
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