december 8

For your MOM: What if everything right now - about your living and learning situation, about our country, even about the pandemic - were perfect?

JOURNAL TOPIC: [today's tune: "Lose Yourself" by Eminem]
George Bernard Shaw was a famous author who wrote more than sixty plays and won a Nobel Peace Prize for his writing.  He was known for having a pretty sharp wit, and at some point he decided to take teachers down a peg by saying, "Those who can't do, teach." Shaw was dead wrong about me - I teach writing, and my latest book is coming out in February - but there are many different types of teachers out there, so I have two questions for you today:

1. If you could pick one teacher to do the work s/he assigns, who would it be?  Why?

2. What do you think is easier-- doing something well or teaching someone else to do it?  Why?

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Choose your own topic.

AGENDA:

1. Journal
2. Work on your reflection essay

PLEASE REMEMBER:

1. Write in your journal every day this week, so that you can pick and post your three favorite entries on your blog by 5:00 p.m. on Friday.
2. Write your reflection essay, so that you can proofread it and post it on your blog by 5:00 p.m. on Friday.