Weekend and small son's stomach flu or food poisoning, up all night changing sheets, plus grading plus cleaning doesn't leave much time for real studentship. Still, set out on Atwood's "Surfacing" -- an amazing piece -- and found my own 'graded' packet in the mail from my teacher. She was helpfully critical and complimentary in the right doses. Now I have revisions to consider plus new readings and work on my new piece, in which I have meagre confidence. At least now I have a new deadline to kick me along! i also find myself being more generous in my own comments on my students' work.
My 3 -almost- 4-year-old daughter rode her bike almost without help this afternoon, and my son came home from a trip to Lowes with his own tool set. Oh, my little grown-ups -- how beautiful they are. Sweetness personified. Now I have a birthday party to plan!
sometimes some of my best teachers have been the active students - you know how your students feel!
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