Opposite Day: Upside-Down Questions to Keep Students Talking and Listening
Brooklyn Lindsey
Zondervan, 2009, 176 pp., $10.99
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Self-described model and festival beauty queen Brooklyn Lindsey provides more than 600 prompts for encouraging students to open up in conversation and discussion. By using the childhood game “Opposite Day,” students can describe the opposite of their thoughts and feelings.
The author has filled 176 pages with lists of prompts, such as Pop Tarts, Sudoku and hockey jersey, all in large font with plenty of white space on each page.
There are scores of helpful “prompts,” particularly regarding the students’ family and school life, from which most of a younger teen’s angst and conflict might originate. These lists are neatly rganized in the table of contents; but flipping page after page of seemingly endless words, one wonders why this didn’t appear as a shorter addendum to another youth ministry resource rather than as its own book.
This is a helpful resource for the near impossible—getting teens to open up.
