During these blog posts, I realized I don't really like blogging. I think I do better when I write for classes or for myself personally. In the future, I think if I were to show people my writing it would be something I want to publish.
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Over the past few weeks, I have started reading Teaching Arguments by Jennifer Fletcher. From the beginning of the book I was drawn-in from the connections I have been able to make to the instructional practices of some of my own teachers. My World Literature professor based his entire class on the concept of "liminality."
I moved out of my parents' house almost two years ago. For the first time in my life, I was faced with the task of moving all of my earthly goods. It was not too challenging because I'm not much of a pack-rat except when it comes to notebooks. I had an entire box in my closet devoted to notebooks - diaries, sketch-pads, notes from school. What was I going to do with all of them? I didn't have room for them in my new place so I couldn't take them with me. At the same time, I couldn't leave them at my parents' house and risk getting them thrown out.
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From what I read online, INHERIT THE WIND is a dramatization of the real life Scopes Trial. The gist is that a teacher got in trouble for teaching evolution in a school before it was legal. | I honestly had no idea what to blog about for a while. I've always wanted to blog because I like the feeling of putting my thoughts into written words. It's such a relief from my constantly running mind. What makes it harder for me to blog versus normal writing is that I have to decide what thoughts I actually want to share. I don't want to make it too personal because no one would want to read that. At the same time, I want my writing to be of some importance to me. That being said, I probably wouldn't have decided on this topic if it hadn't been for my internship. During my initial observations, the student's were discussing Jerome Lawrence's and Robert Edwin Lee's 1955 play Inherit the Wind. Although I had never even heard of this play until listening to their discussion, I was drawn in to their discussion more than many things I have read. This discussion resonated so much with me that I was almost brought to tears. "Have a bite? Don't worry. I'm not the serpent, little Eva." As a kid, I was homeschooled. I guess my parents thought that if they kept me from all of the "bad" things in the world I wouldn't grow up to be a bad person. I wasn't allowed to listen to "secular" music, I wasn't allowed to watch tv channels with commercials (unless it was a Christian channel), and "fart" and "stupid" were swear words. In the story, a young girl is introduced to a newspaper from outside her puritanical town. The effect alludes to the biblical story of the serpent giving Eve a bite of the "tree of the knowledge of good and evil." I felt a twinge in my chest when I heard them discussing this because I felt as though I had once been "little Eva." The teacher continued his discussion by asking the students why knowledge is important. "Knowledge is power!" exclaimed one of them. I think that this discussion will stick with me for a while. As I go forward with my internship, my future teaching career, and my own future children I will remember that we don't live in Eden. The only power we have against the "bad" world is our knowledge. But maybe it's a lot simpler than that. Maybe it's not just that I feel better equipped to handle life. I've also discovered that I'm a lot happier out of Eden. And isn't that what we want for our students and children? |
Marie
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