. . . and every once in awhile something amazing will happen in class. Something so unprecedented, so incredible that it just makes a cranky old teacher like me stop in his tracks and smile in spite of himself. Sometimes students just walk right in - and with no encouragement at all - just get to work on their assignments. That happened first block. The students - well most - turned in their American Dream essays, opened their workbooks and started finishing the “Plymouth Plantation” assignment. If they had those done, they began on the creative assignment for “Plymouth Plantation” - drawing what the Cape Cod shore must have looked like to the pilgrims, a suicide note from William Bradford’s wife (who ‘fell’ overboard as they came to the coast, they could go to itunes and listen to a podcast by Dan Carlin about desperate times making stronger people and apply that to the pilgrims’ situation.
. . . and then something even more amazing will happen in class. Students will finish their previous assignments - a good 20 minutes before they are scheduled to - and they will ask “What’s next?” Classes like this can go on forever as far as I’m concerned.
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