"Embrace the Steely Silence"

Had my high school observation lesson plan yesterday, asked a question about if a texture was a person, what would this texture's mood be? It was like all the crickets in the world congregated in that one room. However, I embraced those crickets and it allowed for making us all feel so awkward, finally people began stating what a personified texture may be like and act like. It was a helpful exercise, that taught having a purpose behind including texture with a piece of ceramics. But I'f I hadn't embraced that silence, I would have never gotten their brains working in the out of the box direction I wanted it to start working in, for the lesson plan.