Constructing Scientific Understandings 4.5 Torres_01

“John! John! Are you ignoring me again?” shouted Dottie. “Don’t you realize I’m trying to talk with you?”

“Sorry, Dottie. I was distracted by that bag up on the stage,” John explained.

“Really, John?” Dottie said sarcastically.

John’s attention, all through lunch, was drawn to a brown bag. It was sitting at the front of the cafeteria. Mr. Smith, the lunchroom monitor, had placed the bag on a table behind him. The sign hanging from the table explained the contents of the bag held great wealth. There was no other information.

“Maybe it’s a million dollars?” said John excitedly.

 “You are so illogical. Why would there be a million dollars in a brown paper bag? Do you know where you are? This is the cafeteria at Tiffany Bowen Middle School,” Dottie replied.

“Could be,” said John through his sheepish grin.

“Ugh!” muttered Dottie followed by one of her typical rhetorical responses. “On what are you basing this assumption?”

Dottie thought herself as the ultimate logical thinker. She acts much more like the character Spock, from the Star Trek series, than a typical sixth grader.

Even at this young age, she has her life mapped out. After taking every AP course Bucklew High School will offer, she plans to attend Wikman University. She hopes to finish her undergraduate degree in Planetary Science within three years. After receiving her bachelor’s degree, she will be off to another major university. There she will work towards her doctorate degree.