Who's your banana?

In order to cover all of the genres of literature with my students, I have them do monthly book reports. They are very amusing projects as they are not just your standard written format from the good old days when I was in grade school. The project for February was to read a biography. The assignment was to take a plastic banana and decorate it to resemble the iconic figure they chose to read about. The bananas are absolutely hysterical, but some of the facts that my students chose to include in the written portion of their project are pure gold. These are some of the more amusing ones I was able to extract from their writings. I always find it quite fascinating what my students interpret as an "important fact."

Martin Luther King Jr.: “While attending B.U., Martin Luther King met his future wife, Coretta Scott. They often had lunch together.”

John Elway: “But to date, his biggest accomplishment is when he got a family. That’s what people say. Do you think that?”
Henando Cortés: “Mexico does not have a statue of Cortés. But they have his remains.”

Helen Keller: “One of her accomplishments was being able to be blind and deaf at the same time.”

Thomas Edison: “I think Thomas Edison is important because if he didn’t invent the light bulb we could not see in the dark.”

Ivan the Terrible: “If he had not killed so many people, there would probably be millions more people in Russia now.”

Stan Lee: “He got married in 1970, but currently he is enjoying life.”

Lesson to be learned?
Now I know why Spiderman stayed single!