if you become the change...what happens tomorrow?
ahhhh...what a great two days it has been. an exhausting two days, for sure, but great nonetheless.
my third block class started working on persuasive speeches yesterday and will hopefully present them tomorrow...i decided to choose the topic for them, so we're working on talking about the crisis in darfur. for the most part, they're actually getting interested. i found a video clip about it and then there is this neat rap song by Wu Tang (Remedy) called "never again" (about the holocaust and how it shouldn't happen again) that i played today. they loved it (especially when i started doing the robot LOL).
and i have to tell you about tre'--one of my third block kids. he's my favorite (well, one of them) and he works so hard and always does quality work. he turned in a project to me about two weeks ago and said, "ms. k, i didn't have a picture to glue on here, so i drew one, and then i didn't have glue for the other thing, so i made paste out of flour." and he DID! i could see the flour on the paper! it made my day.
anyway, tre' took his quiz the other day and responded to the question: "have you ever had a teacher or someone else take special interest in you and contribute to your success?" he said, "i had a teacher that help me pull my grades up for the year. this teacher was nice kind and careing. this teacher teaches 9th grade english classes. she helped me make up work. this teacher made my success."
*grins*
sometimes it's good to know that maybe i'm making a difference somewhere. i see so many kids every day, and they all have issues they are dealing with...two of mine that i know of have been raped by family members, several have had recent deaths in the family, and all of them are dealing with the frustrations of adolescence. and i want to see peace and hope and love and joy come into their lives. the only thing i really want out of life is to know that someone--student, friend, coworker, etc--has seen that i care. and i want that to be a reflection on the God i love.
i figure it's not my job to introduce them personally to Jesus, but hey, they can at least meet Him when they look at me.
i can totally dig that.
"I believe
That we're all waking up,
From a spell
That those that profit from the fear,
Cast so well.
The good people of the earth,
Now can tell,
There is no 'us and them'! "
--melissa etheridge
my third block class started working on persuasive speeches yesterday and will hopefully present them tomorrow...i decided to choose the topic for them, so we're working on talking about the crisis in darfur. for the most part, they're actually getting interested. i found a video clip about it and then there is this neat rap song by Wu Tang (Remedy) called "never again" (about the holocaust and how it shouldn't happen again) that i played today. they loved it (especially when i started doing the robot LOL).
and i have to tell you about tre'--one of my third block kids. he's my favorite (well, one of them) and he works so hard and always does quality work. he turned in a project to me about two weeks ago and said, "ms. k, i didn't have a picture to glue on here, so i drew one, and then i didn't have glue for the other thing, so i made paste out of flour." and he DID! i could see the flour on the paper! it made my day.
anyway, tre' took his quiz the other day and responded to the question: "have you ever had a teacher or someone else take special interest in you and contribute to your success?" he said, "i had a teacher that help me pull my grades up for the year. this teacher was nice kind and careing. this teacher teaches 9th grade english classes. she helped me make up work. this teacher made my success."
*grins*
sometimes it's good to know that maybe i'm making a difference somewhere. i see so many kids every day, and they all have issues they are dealing with...two of mine that i know of have been raped by family members, several have had recent deaths in the family, and all of them are dealing with the frustrations of adolescence. and i want to see peace and hope and love and joy come into their lives. the only thing i really want out of life is to know that someone--student, friend, coworker, etc--has seen that i care. and i want that to be a reflection on the God i love.
i figure it's not my job to introduce them personally to Jesus, but hey, they can at least meet Him when they look at me.
i can totally dig that.
"I believe
That we're all waking up,
From a spell
That those that profit from the fear,
Cast so well.
The good people of the earth,
Now can tell,
There is no 'us and them'! "
--melissa etheridge