Blog Excitement

So today, the girls from Creative Writing class who are also in Journalism class were all excited about their new blogs. In fact one girl actually named hers "igotmyownblog" and was thrilled to show it to me (I've been trying to link to it but have not been successful so far). I love when my students are excited about writing. It's so satisfying!

Honors English class was fun today, too. We're finishing our work on Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House. It's the first time since student teaching that I've taught that book/play and we had a good time reading and discussing it together. Today we were editing rough drafts of their papers. Each of them had interesting points to make.

This year the six students read books from the various cultures represented in the class. Amazingly, there are six different countries represented by the six kids. So far we've studied books from Haiti (Breath, Eyes, Memory), South Africa (Cry, the Beloved Country), Cuba (The Old Man and the Sea), the Dominican Republic (In the Time of the Butterflies), and now Norway.

Our last book will be from the United States: Mitch Albom's Tuesdays with Morrie, a phenomenal book that I read in one afternoon, and cried through much of it. I can't wait to read it with these kids. They are deep, insightful readers some of whom I've known since they were 5 years old...and my niece since her very first day. I will miss them enormously next year...