Chipotle

I have come across an interesting way to build relationships with students. It has come through a fictional obsession with the popular chain of Mexican eateries Chipotle. The facts are these. In my first period seventh grade Language Arts class on October the 29th, I was reading a list of vocabulary words to the class and for each word I thought of a sample sentence that uses the word. With no prior planning on my plot, two of my sample sentences were about my enjoying Chipotle. For example, using the word "roused" I said, "I could be roused out of bed if I heard the town crier announcing a sale at my local Chipotle." Or something similar to that. For whatever reason, in the mind of a few boys this really stuck in their head, one of them still just calls me Chipotle, which I should probably attend to (unless he only wants my attention, however I don't feel annoyed so I'm not sure if that's it.) First of all, this has helped me build relationships with a few students so that is nice. Second of all, some students I have seen getting more excited about learning vocabulary words, since they want to think of sentences about Chipotle that accurately use the word. I am very interested and am thinking hard as to how I can use this to further educational goals. For now though, it is really funny to me at the very least.