However, after thinking about Daniel's comment, I was not too sure that the students in the class were being too honest with me about the initial question of whether smoking is cool, sexy, or romantic looking. Of course students do not want to "stand out" from the others, and this could be culturally based, so I was thinking about other ways to activate their schema on the topic of smoking without asking and answering based on themselves. So instead of just putting the pictures of celebrities on the board, I put pictures of people (including celebrities) smoking in all walks of life. I then asked the questions "How does this image make you feel? Why do you think that this particular person is smoking". The results were different and a lot more like what i expected as they were based on unknown people and not on themselves. There were pictures of students smoking, celebrities smoking, young children smoking, parents, and workers smoking. The words and opinions varied depending on the images which is what i expected and wanted. From there they could start thinking more in depth about the topic and discuss in GW and PW.
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