One of my duties as a teacher is grading my students journals. This is where they write a short paragraph or page about what they like, what they do, or something important in their lives. Usually I grade a dozen journals about soccer, family members, and computer games each time. Currently it’s getting too cold to play soccer, so they’ve started talking about other topics. One current hot game trend for students in my school is a game they call "Survivor".
Survivor, so I’ve been able to figure out, it basically a shoot out between students. Some students improvise awesome rubber band shooting guns with chopsticks, tape, and rubber bands. They have actual triggers and everything. Other students buy guns that are plastic replicas of actual guns. Those have been illegal in American for quite some time. Students will bring in guns that look exactly like the real thing, except they shoot plastic beads instead of actual rounds of ammunition. I have one myself that I got from a friend.
The Glock model "Survivor" Gun
One of my students was talking about how he owned seven replica Survivor guns, and he always played the game with his friends. He said none of his friends are allowed to have the guns, so they use his. His brother and his brother’s friends also play with his Survivor guns. He said he hoped that his friends would be able to get their own Survivor guns for Christmas.
His essay was interesting, well written, and grammatically easy to understand. Still, I was compelled to write a note after I gave him is grade. "You’ll shoot your eye out kid!"
