During my pre-service teaching, one of the community service projects I worked on was mentoring teens in the local juvenile hall. Usually I played cards and listened to kids talk. One day however, I showed up as usual and for some reason we all got into a large group and played "
Murder". The 'inmates' taught the mentors how to play. How surreal is it be playing the game of "
murder" while inside a jail? I kept waiting for someone to point out that this might just be innappropriate, but no one did.
Today we played the game in my advisory group. It was as supposed free day - no goal setting - and my group has already played all the interesting games in the little advisory book. So I picked the murderers, the doctor and a sheriff and the killing started. I have to say, my students were pretty good at picking out the bad guys for never having played before.
Maybe I am teaching them life skills. Twisted parlor games and the ability to recognize murderers when they're sitting right next to you.
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