Coconut Passion Fruit or Durian
by Eric Gonzalez-Payne

Three fruit, four properties. Heavy or light, smooth or spiky, one seed or many, eaten fresh or opened first.
Durian earns its place by being the extreme on every axis and by producing an opinion in every child in the room. Some love it. Some leave. That division is worth having because it introduces preference as data rather than as a fact about the fruit.
Buy all three at a market on the morning. This does not work with pictures.
The page has the sorting grid, the four properties, and a class preference tally at the end. Ventilate the room. We are not joking about that and neither is anyone else who has done this indoors.
Eric Gonzalez-Payne
Founder and curriculum author
Ed.M. in Educational Leadership, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Published by Empathy Global LLC
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