"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?" (Mary Oliver)
Well, that was more of an emotional last few days than even I anticipated. Seeing all of my 8th grade students go through a magical transformation from children to young adults right in front of my eyes was amazing. I am so proud of each and every one of you. Please keep in touch, and let me know how your journeys are going.
With love,
Mrs. L
Someone grabbed a legal notepad and started writing some questions. I’m not sure whose these belong to, but I wanted to capture them:
1. How is the war effort going in Iraq? Are we winning or losing?
2. Is there life on other planets?
3. Why do people live and then die?
4. How are movie special effects made?
5. Why is there racism?
6. Why did Thomas Jefferson own slaves?
7. Why was earth created?
8. Why are some people taller than others?
Here are some of the resources they jotted down:
Iraq-Dick Cheney speech
My War: Killing Time in Iraq
Google search: Iraq
Wikipedia
News
Life on other planets?
SETI
Drake’s Equation
A Brief History of Time
While researching some links and more information for a book that a student loaned me (thanks, A.N.!), So Far from the Bamboo Grove, by Yoko Kiwashima Watkins, I came across a site that made comments which indicated that what the author wrote wasn’t true. The author wrote the book many years after the events (about forty years later) and it’s her memoir of when she was a young Japanese girl living in Korea during WWII.
What do you think? Who owns your truth? If you remember it slightly wrong, does it matter?
Book List:
All by Neil Gaiman:
American Gods
Anansi’s Boys
Stardust
The Graveyard Book
Neverworld
Smoke and Mirrors
and many, many more…
