[ola] Re: Meeting notes from OLA Ideas listserve

  • From: Thomas Hinkle <thinkle@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: ola@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2012 06:31:22 -0400

On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 9:20 PM, Ruth Whalen Crockett <rwhalen@xxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> From Ruthie:
> Atchi Patchi.  Like who is in the middle. Students sitting in circle. One
> student is standing in the middle. Everyone closes their eyes as student is
> in the middle thinking up a question to ask the group. While they are
> closing eyes touch one student on the shoulder. This person is the Atchi
> Patchi.  Then ask everyone to open their eyes. Student in the middle (not
> knowing who is the Atchi Patchi begins asking everyone the same question.
>  When the student who is the Atchi Patchi is asked the question, they
> respond, "Atchi Patchi". At this moment everyone stands up and moves to a
> different spot in the circle. The student who remains standing is the
> question asker. Again, everyone closes their eyes. The teacher selects the
> Atchi Patchi and the questions start again.
>
>
Curious: where does the phrase "Atchi Patchi" come from? Google yields no
interesting results...

Tom

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