Highlights

In the past couple of weeks, I've had two of the best moments of the year.

First, some students were working on their persuasive essay in my room while others were in the English lab and library. I was grading papers in my room and listening to their discussions.

I was really behind on correcting, so when the bell rang for lunch, I just kept grading. The students, though, didn't notice and kept working. Finally, with just over half of our lunch period remaining, I got up and said that I was going to lunch.

They looked bewildered and realized that they'd worked right through the bell and into lunch.

Talk about motivated students! Awesome.

My second highlight came on Wednesday when one of my College Comp writers came in to turn in his final research paper. He enjoys writing - but it doesn't come easy to him - and he must work hard for his grades. He turned the paper in and got a smirk. Then he said, "I'm not going to lie. I enjoyed some of this paper" and walked out.

Coming from him, that's saying a lot! Awesome.