In November former students Sarah Takash and Bridget Savage spent the afternoon with eighth graders and me.  They had asked if I would be amenable to acting as the subject of a video assignment for a class they were taking at Communications High School.

Just last week, they sent me the link to their finished project, and I am thoroughly impressed and humbled.  These girls captured me, engaged with some of your children, in a pithy, nuanced film that makes me proud, not just of them, but of what I have chosen to do with my life.  I cannot thank them, and all my students, former and current, enough.

Teaching for the Future

“‘His work says little that is new’

According to one slick review

But the pupils are his masterpiece.”

from “Writer and Teacher” by Seamus Heaney

Occasionally, if I assess that interest or incentive is worthwhile, I will post a writing opportunity for students.  Here is one that might be worth the time and effort:

drive2life Contest

 

Thanks to Mount Desert Island High School for this most excellent parody. No offense to Meghan Traynor, after all it is her music, but I prefer THIS version…’cuz I’m all about those books.